Business immigration to the USA is a great option for starting your own business abroad. Everyone has their own motives to emigrate to America, but one thing can be said - in this country, it is easier for an emigrant to adapt and realize his ideas.
Before deciding whether to move to the United States, you should carefully review your visa requirements. There are 24 different types of visas, but if your goal is not to obtain American citizenship, then you can get by applying for a non-immigrant visa.
How to open a visa in the USA
You should decide what type of visa you will apply for. Next, you need to pay a consular fee of $ 140 US dollars. Please note that the paid funds will not be returned to you, even if you are refused a visa. The fee is paid in rubles at the exchange rate.
On a special website on the Internet, you need to fill out the DS-160 form, indicate all the required information about you and upload a photo. Of course, the questionnaire on the site is filled out only in English. After your details are confirmed, a bar code will appear on the next page, which you need to save and print. When you go for an interview at the embassy, you may need it.
Visit to the embassy
To get an interview, you need to enter the numbers of three personal documents on a special website: a passport, a receipt on payment of the fee and the barcode you received. Only after that you will be assigned the date and time of the interview. At the embassy you will need a 5 by 5 cm photograph, a passport, an invitation to an interview, and a printout of a page with the application form DS-160.
In addition, you need to have such documents as a marriage certificate, income certificate and so on. All documents are provided to the embassy staff. Next you will have the interview itself. If a positive decision is made on your application, a visa will be issued in your passport.
Immigration process
Immigration to the United States begins with a visa. There are several options for direct immigration to America.
- Relocating for a family reunion in the USA. This type of visa drawn up upon the invitation of a relative who is an American citizen or holder of GREEN CARD.
- GREEN CARD drawing. Every year, a lottery created by the American government is held on the Internet. But direct immigration to the US through this lottery is not possible. You still have to go through an interview and show what you have: funds for the first time you live, education to work in your specialty, invitation from an employer, and so on.
- Obtaining refugee status. Obtaining this status is not so easy, as the United States is in no hurry to accept refugees. They need to be taken care of, provided with benefits, housing, and the like.
- Business immigration to the USA. This program is quite extensive and it is provided on several points at once.
Visa L1-A / B - this type of visa acts in this way. L1-A gives the company the opportunity to transfer managers to the United States, L1-B involves the transfer of specialists in its field and skilled workers. It is not difficult to get an L-1 visa, especially if there is an opportunity to open a new business in the USA and employ the necessary personnel.
Other US Immigration Methods
Visa EB-1. This program is designed for employees with outstanding abilities in education, science, sports or business.In addition, this method of immigration is suitable for graduate scientists who are engaged in research in important areas of science, as well as for the management and management of companies that are transferred to work in the United States in the state of enterprises.
Program EB-2. This method of immigration to the United States is designed for professionals with outstanding abilities in the arts, science or business. It is suitable for highly qualified professionals, for outstanding doctors who plan to practice in America.
US immigration under the EB-3 program is designed for specialists with higher education and long experience in their field of activity. The EB-4 program is designed for special workers: former employees of American institutions abroad or religious figures.
Visa EB-5
Business immigration to the USA can also be carried out on an EB5 visa. This method is quite popular among those wishing to move to America. In this case, investments in the country's economy in the amount of from five hundred thousand dollars in full are expected and even before submitting a request for a GREEN card.
It is worth noting that half a million dollars is only the initial threshold for investments in some areas of the country. In other cases, you need to invest at least a million dollars. With these funds, you open your own business in the United States or invest in existing enterprises.
Advantages of a visa type EB-5
An approved investor and family members are legally entitled to reside in the United States. The total number of family members should not exceed ten people. To obtain an EB-5 visa, you do not need to meet age requirements, have a special business education, experience, skills in managing the company, any achievements.
Also, knowledge of languages is not required, which can often be found in the requirements for obtaining other types of visas. Having an EB-5 visa, the investor and his family in two years receive the status of a permanent resident of America. Under this program, you can live, work and have your own business anywhere in the United States. In addition, if desired, the investor and his family can receive education in this country along with US citizens. Five years later, the holder of the EB-5 visa can become a full-fledged citizen of America.
If you do not meet the requirements for any of the above visas, then you always have a backup option - obtaining a work visa N1-B, which is issued to foreign citizens for seven years. But for this to get a visa of this type, you need to be a specialist in the business in which the company will operate.
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