"I want to enter the United States of America". This sentence or thought is where your journey towards a visa and/or citizenship begins. It is a long journey, that includes multiple steps, actions, challenges, possible disappointment, hopefully successes, and more.
So you want to enter the United States of America? - You will need permission to enter...as simple as that. You need a visa, the question is "which type of visa do you need?". The next questions relevant are "are you entering to stay?"; "passing through?"; "Entering alone?"; "Accompanying someone else?", "Bringing someone with you?"; "Why are you entering?"; "For how long?"
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The answers to these questions and more, lead to knowing which visa you are going to need, perhaps even multiple visas. The answers to those questions will also determine the criteria you would have to meet in full, in order to be approved for a U.S. visa. A similar process applies when applying for a Permanent Residency known as a Green Card, and/or American citizenship. It all starts with a visa of sort that allows you to enter the United States at least once.
The first option is to enter the United States without intent to stay. Three major reasons are: 1) Tourism 2) Passing through the United States on the way to another destination 3) Due to diplomatic, business related reasons, military collaboration, etc.
All such visas issued have one common basis, the time at which the person will be leaving the United States is for the most part clear, predetermined, and mandatory. These types of visas are considered as nonimmigrant visas.
The second option is entering the United States as a temporary worker. Such visas are often capped at three years duration. In order to apply for such a visa, a workplace must support your visa application, proving that you will earn the minimum salary required by the law, and that you are essential to the function of your visa sponsor. Temporary workers have a well defined cap on their permission (visa) to be in the United States. Such visas can be renewed multiple times, as long as the need continues and criteria are met. With a temporary worker visa, you most likely can only work for the employer that is sponsoring the visa. These types of visas are considered as nonimmigrant visas.
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The third option are immigrant visas. Entering the United States with an immigrant visa signifies the intention and given permission to enter the United States and stay. Immigrant visas still are visas, thus inherently have an expiration date. Immigrant visas often have a longer duration approved, of up to ten years. An example of such a visa would be a Permanent Residency visa, also known as a Green Card. Green cards can be renewed multiple times, and are commonly approved for ten years. With a Green Card you can work for any employer within the United States. Citizenship often follows at least seven years of having a Green Card; Sometimes as little as five years with a Green Card.
Why should you think of a Green Card as a visa? - first of all because it is a visa. It is meant to allow you to enter the United States; it is limited by time; It must be renewed; Criteria must be met every time it is renewed; it is not automatically renewed. The only permission to enter the United States, and stay, without a visa of sort, is known as a citizenship.
Green Cards are often confused with being a citizen of the United States. A Green Card does not make you an American citizen. Ever more confusing is the fact that Green Card holders are addressed at Customs at airports the same as American citizens, as long as their Permanent Residency visa did not expire.
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