Employment channel for Green Card

A good, reputed and a permanent employment opportunity with a US employer can fetch you the permanent resident card there. Green card which is a dream for many aliens can be achieved if you are exclusively skilled with extraordinary knowledge and potential. But there exist various formalities to be met with before getting the same. Green card through employment has various benefits for a foreign national, like he once receives the immigration visa, he becomes eligible for getting the permanent visa card after the completion of his 5 tenures time in the country. He is allowed to reside anywhere in the U.S and has no limitation to the amount of work he could perform. He is eligible to sponsor his other relatives as well for the green card.

There exist certain fields in which one must fall in to become eligible for achieving the green card through employment:-

Special immigrants

Ones with exceptional abilities or advanced degrees

Skilled or professional workers

Priority workers

Eligible foreign nationals tend to obtain the green card through employment in a much easier way. Excellent performers and researchers are always of a great demand. It is actually the employer who determines the skills of an alien applicant and then decides whether to sponsor him for the green card through employment or no.

Being a part of the multi step process, obtaining green card through employment involves filing of form 750 by the employer. This form is to be submitted with the department of Labor's employment and training administration, it is the DOL only that deny or accepts the labor certification request made by the employer. It depends upon how the employer states and proves the unavailability of a U.S. citizen for a position in his company. If the DOL accepts the certification request, then the same is forwarded to USCIS which the US citizenship and immigration services. Upon getting clearance from this department, a visa number is dispatched which acts as the confirmation to the employee for getting the immigrant visa. This immigrant visa allows the applicant to live and work in U.S. for unlimited period and after completion of his 5 years stay in U.S. he is granted with the Green card through employment.

If the applicant or the employer is not in receipt of the visa number then their case is kept on hold for long till the same is being received.

On receipt of the visa number, the applicant is supposed to visit the local U.S. consulate office where remaining documents are to be submitted and other formalities are to be accomplished.