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For certain applicants born in oversubscribed countries such as India and China, approval to be chargeable to another country can significantly reduce the waiting time for their adjustment of status or consular processing of their green card application. This process is also known as "alternate chargeability". [1]
The Diversity Immigrant Visa program, also known as the green card lottery, is a United States government lottery program for receiving an immigrant visa followed by a permanent resident card. The Immigration Act of 1990 established the current and permanent Diversity Visa (DV) program.
What if my green card and extension notice are expired? These days, USCIS says the waiting period to process a green card renewal application is taking between 13 and 17 months – longer than the ...
USCIS processes immigrant visa petitions, naturalization applications, asylum applications, applications for adjustment of status (green cards), and refugee applications. It also makes adjudicative decisions performed at the service centers, and manages all other immigration benefits functions (i.e., not immigration enforcement) performed by ...
Green card marriage, when two people marry in order to gain permanent residence in the US; The Green card system: the European International Motor Insurance Card System, also based on a green card; Green card (IBM/360), the shorthand "bible" for programmers during the late 1960s and 1970s "Green Card", a song by Oh Land from the album Wish Bone
Over the years, the Act granted green cards to an estimated number of 54,000 Chinese nationals. [1] The green cards were called "blood cards" by the Chinese, as a “pejorative term for the green cards awarded to their countrymen who, by virtue of their presence in the U.S. at the time, were eligible for the Chinese Student Protection Act.” [2]
There were roughly 11 million immigrants in the U.S. illegally or with a temporary status at the start of 2022, a figure that some analysts say has increased to 13-14 million. ... An up-to-date ...
Immigrants who received Registered Provisional Immigrant status would have been able to apply for legal permanent resident status (in other words, a green card) as long as strict border security provisions were met (including increasing the number of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents and officers, constructing a double layer fence ...