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Green
Cards:
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Via Employment: |
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Via Investment: |
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Permanent Residence through employment, or through
professional self sponsorship. |
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Alien investors in significant new commercial
enterprises who create employment. |
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Via Family: |
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Via Green Card Lottery: |
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U.S. citizens may petition for spouses, parents,
children and siblings. Permanent residents may petition
for spouses and children. |
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55,000 visas are annually allotted in a random drawing
to individuals from nations underrepresented in the
total immigrant pool. |
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Via Asylum: |
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Persons with a well-founded fear of persecution on
account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a
particular social group, or political opinion may be
eligible to apply for asylum or refugee status in the
U.S. |
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