How can apply work permit for USA
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USA work permit |
Immigrants who want to work legally in USA should know that can only do so if they have a work permit issued by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).
It is therefore very important that every immigrant knows about the immigration rules or at least turn to a counselor who will provide this information.
As you know, in America, there are various types of visas and not all allow the migrant work in this country.
Temporary stays
You can stay up to 3 months in the United States traveling on business or pleasure, without obtaining a visa, if you are a citizen of one of the following countries:
Andorra, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brunei, South Korea, Denmark, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Norway, New Zealand, Netherlands, Portugal, United Kingdom, Czech Republic, San Marino, Singapore, Sweden and Switzerland.
If you are a citizen of another country, or you will permenecer more than three months, you can apply the following visas:
For business travel, B1 visa allows you to stay in the country for six months, renewable for another six.
For leisure or for health reasons, the visa B2: the term is the same as above.
These two visas are interchangeable, ie, if you have a B1 unexpired can return to the United States for tourism or health, and so when you have one B2 and plan to do a business trip.
In certain circumstances, it can work in the US with a B1, as if it were an H-1B visa. This occurs when the worker will play a work or service on US soil being hired and paid by a foreign employer. In this case, it is required that the worker has an equivalent level of qualification As demand for H-1B visas.
H-1B visa
Skilled workers who are hired in the United States for a maximum period of six years is intended. It is not considered an immigration visa, as if it is the Green Card, so the processed is faster than the latter.
The requirements for applying for H-1B visas are:
Prove that will occupy a specialized position that requires a higher education.
Try to possess an equivalent to a four-year degree (or equivalent studies at this level in the United States are considered) title, or a three-year degree and three years of professional experience, or demonstrate that accounts for at least twelve years professional experience without having some degree. This last condition is not valid for certain professionals such as doctors, lawyers or accountants, who in all cases must satisfy a higher training.
Prove that your employer will pay you a certain wage in a particular geographical area.
At first, this visa allows stay legally in the country for three years. Once this period has ended, you can request an extension for two years, and finally one for a year. Having exhausted the maximum duration of the H-1B worker may remain in the country only if you get the Green Card.
Failure to obtain it, you must leave the country and wait at least a year before you can apply for another work visa.
To begin the process, you can follow the steps in Immigration Services. They are simple and well explained steps, but if you need the help of experts Currantes Without Borders, here's another access to our experts:
Your documentation for USA
For workers without the level of qualification required for H-1B, there is H-2B visa. However, the laws are strict with this type of visa: a US employer may hire a foreign worker, if he proves that no American workers unemployed could play that job. Furthermore, in no case is applicable to agricultural work.
If the laws are so restrictive, what professions are used to H-2B workers to hire? Very easy, it is very specific jobs in the leisure and tourism. This applies, for example, ski instructors in Colorado or employees of Florida Fairgrounds. Immigration services issued every year 60,000 H-2B visas for this class of workers.
-1 visaL
Companies that operate in both the US and abroad, may use its foreign workers on American soil, through this visa.
To apply it is a necessary condition to have worked for at least one year for the American company that you want to use in the country. The maximum duracción of this permit is seven years, in which you can exercise your profession in the United States.
There are two types of workers who can benefit from L1:
Managers / executives: The visa must prove very strictly what their functions are. If it is approved, you are granted a visa L1A for a maximum period of three years. From there it can be renewed up to seven years maximum.
Staff expertise: these workers with specific knowledge of the products and services of the company as well as techniques, systems, etc ... For these workers there L1B variant, for an initial period of three years which may extend to a maximum duration of five.
Visas exchange
The Exchange Visitor Program, or exchange visitor program works through the J-1 visa. There are thirteen different variants of this visa, aimed at a wide range of cases, from professionals to students, to athletes or even government visitors. These visas are also aimed at foreign seasonal workers hired by US companies.
Depending on the variants, these visas enable them to work, study, train or travel the country.
Here are the various professional and academic categories eligible for such visas:
In the private sector: foreign doctors, nannies, camp counselors, high school students, people who travel and work for the country in summer, teachers and learners in practice.
Academic and governmental sectors: government visitor, international visitors, interns on short stays, academics and scholarship researchers, specialists and senior students.
Permanent Residency (Green Card)
Popularly known as Green Card, this permit entitles the holder to live and work in the United States indefinitely. The Green Card is ultimately the goal that pursue all immigrants in the US.
There are five ways to get it:
Through a relative who is a US citizen, while you have him or her the following kinship:
spouse, even if you have forsaken him or herself
brother or sister
son or daughter (including illegitimate children and adpotivos)
parent (also foster and adopted)
Also if you are a spouse or child victim of abuse or mistreatment.
Through employment, circumstances for which there are three main types of Green Card:
EB-1: target certain multinational executives, outstanding professors and researchers, and people with extraordinary ability in the arts, sciences, education, business or athletics.
EB-2 is intended for people with an advanced degree (a Master upwards) and a job offer from a US company; and for all those aliens of exceptional ability in business, science or the arts, having a US labor supply, or ultimately for those possessing an offer and an advanced degree can benefit substantially by their activities to the national interests of the United States.
EB-3 is aimed at people with a degree graduates (bachelor's degree) or workers with at least two years of training in a very specific job, in both cases provided that they have a job offer in the United States.
Investing in a business: be eligible for this Green Card, known as EB-5, all foreigners who are willing to invest at least $ 500,000 in the US, either by opening a business in the country, retiring, or other investment on American soil.
If you get the Green Card Diversity Lottery: the government is giving away each year through Diveristy Visa Lottery Program, 50,000 Green Cards. The beneficiaries are citizens of countries with low immigration to the United States. This drawing is done in computerized form and you can sign up through this web of government: https://www.dvlottery.state.gov/.
On the net you can find numerous websites that are supposed to give access to this Sweepstakes. We recommend you to go carefully, and that you consult the Diversity Lottery only through government websites (.gov). Among other websites there are some scam sites.
The Diversity Visa Lottery Program seeks to promote a diverse immigration. For this reason, each year are excluded from the drawing those nationalities that have contributed more than 50,000 immigrants during the previous year. Many of the excluded countries always belong to Latin America. So, next year 2013, citizens of the following Spanish-speaking countries may not participate in this giveaway: Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico and Peru.
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