You and your spouse and unmarried children can now obtain green cards and permanent US residency with an EB5 visa by investing either:

1)      $500,000 in a rural or high unemployment area; or

2)       $1 million in a commercial enterprise that employs 10 U.S. citizens or authorized immigrant workers full-time and engage in the business through day-to-day management or policy formation.

The EB5 visa will give you and your family the security of permanent US residency without repeated visa applications. The EB5 visa begins with a period of conditional residency (approx one year and nine months) after which an application is filed to remove the “conditional” status, thus making you a Legal Permanent Resident (LPR).  ThisPermanent resident status then allows eligibility for U.S. citizenship after 5 years.

The EB-5 investment visa offers the benefit of securing you a green card before you commit to emigrating. It affords you the flexibility to take any job, run any business, retire and live anywhere in the USA. As a resident you will have access to many of the benefits enjoyed by US citizens such as education and, in certain states such as Florida, you will enjoy substantial savings in property tax.

H-1B VISA

The H-1B Visa allows foreign workers to enter the U.S. and work in a variety of fields and it is a substantial first step toward permanent immigration.  H-1B Visa offers a wide range of employment possibilities with fields ranging from architecture and engineering to medicine and animation and graphics arts.

This visa is issued in three-year increments, for a maximum of six years. Applicants must have a U.S. Bachelor’s Degree in their specialty or a license in fields that require licensing, such as teaching or pharmacy.  You will need an employer to sponsor you and this visa is employer specific meaning that you can only work for your sponsoring employer. You can stay in the U.S. for up to six years, after which you are required to leave the U.S. for at least one year before being eligible again.

Your spouse and unmarried children under the age of 21 are allowed to join you in the U.S. under H-4 status. They are not permitted to work, unless they personally qualify for a work visa.

L-1 VISA

The L-1 visa enables a U.S. employer to transfer an executive or manager from one of its affiliated foreign offices to one of its offices in the United States.  This L-1 visa also enables a foreign company which does not yet have an affiliated U.S. office to send an executive or manager to the United States with the purpose of establishing one.

The L-1 visa requires the applicant to have worked outside of the U.S. for one continuous year within the preceding three years in an executive, managerial, or specialized knowledge capacity for a qualifying organization.  The applicant can then can obtain a non-immigrant L-1 visa to work in the related U.S. company in the same capacity.

This type of visa is very useful for people in business world. International companies most commonly use this type of visa for the transfer of their managerial personnel to fill managerial or executive positions in their U.S. parent, subsidiary, or affiliate companies.

Extra l visa info

Qualified employees entering the United States to establish a new office will be allowed a maximum initial stay of one year.  All other qualified employees will be allowed a maximum initial stay of three years.  For  L-1 employees, requests for extension of stay may be granted in increments of up to an additional two years, until the employee has reached the maximum limit of seven years.