Ways for Immigrants to Enter the United States
February 24th 2010 02:49
Under current U.S. immigration law, there are three primary ways to gain legal entry into the country other than for a limited stay as a tourist:
Also, the Daily Freeman article mentions that, in 2008, the U.S. allowed less than 750,000 immigrants into the country. Allowing so few immigrants into the country surely does not take advantage of their many economic and social benefits.
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• The first is through the annual “green card diversity lottery,” held each year by the Department of Homeland Security, for citizens of countries that have “low rates of immigration” to the United States. Millions of people from specified countries around the world apply to take part in the lottery, but only 50,000 green cards are made available through the process. Each participant in the lottery is issued a number, the government draws about 150,000 numbers, and the people with those numbers then are allowed to apply for one of the 50,000 slots.
• The second way to gain legal entry is to be a spouse, sibling, child or parent of an American citizen or the spouse or minor child of someone who holds a green card and is willing to sponsor your entrance into the United States.
• The third is through an employer, who must complete a lengthy application process that requires proof that the has a unique skill necessary to the business.
THERE ARE other provisions of immigration law that allow people who are seeking asylum to gain legal entry into the country, but being granted asylum is an extraordinarily difficult process...
• The second way to gain legal entry is to be a spouse, sibling, child or parent of an American citizen or the spouse or minor child of someone who holds a green card and is willing to sponsor your entrance into the United States.
• The third is through an employer, who must complete a lengthy application process that requires proof that the has a unique skill necessary to the business.
THERE ARE other provisions of immigration law that allow people who are seeking asylum to gain legal entry into the country, but being granted asylum is an extraordinarily difficult process...
Also, the Daily Freeman article mentions that, in 2008, the U.S. allowed less than 750,000 immigrants into the country. Allowing so few immigrants into the country surely does not take advantage of their many economic and social benefits.
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