Green cards provide foreign nationals with permanent residence in the United States
and are normally employment or family-based.
Whether a sponsoring company or an individual, VISANOW’s experienced legal
team can guide you through the green card and PERM process and ensure you make the
proper selection for a successful application.
What is a Green
Card for an Exceptional Worker
What is an Investor-Based Green Card?
What is Green
Card Labor Certification
What is a Family-Based
Green Card?
Why should I file my Green Card petition through VISANOW?
What is a green card for an Exceptional Worker?
A Green Card (Exceptional
Worker) application includes the appropriate immigrant visa application
(I-140, as
well as the application for permanent resident status (I-485
)). This category is referred to as Employment-Based, 1st or 2nd Preference, or
"EB1" and "EB2". This category includes immigrant workers who
do NOT need foreign labor certification.
What is an investor based green card?
An Investor
Green Card application includes the appropriate immigrant visa application (I-526,
as well as the application for permanent resident status (I-485
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The I-526
immigrant visa preference application is filed with USCIS for immigration based
on an employment creating investment. Next, if the applicant is in the U.S.
and in lawful status, the
I-485 application
for U.S. Lawful Permanent Residence ("Green Card") is filed with USCIS.
This is also called 5th Preference Employment-Based Immigration for alien entrepreneurs.
What is green card labor certification?
A Green Card (Labor
Certification) application includes the appropriate immigrant visa application
( ETA750 A&B,
I-140,
as well as the application for permanent resident status (
I-485 )). This category is referred to as Employment-Based, 3rd Preference
and "EB3" immigration.
The PERM Process
(Program Electronic Review Management System) governs a new innovative method of
processing of labor certification applications. This new regulation will apply to
all applications filed on or after March 28, 2005.
What is a family-based green card?
A Family-based Green
Card application includes the appropriate immigrant visa application (I-130,
as well as the application for permanent resident status (I-485)
This category includes all "quota" and "non-quota" Family-based
immigration applications.
Why should I file my Green Card petition through VISANOW?
Whether you are a sponsoring company or individual, VISANOW's experienced legal
team can guide you through the green card and PERM process to ensure you make the
proper selections for a successful application.
The Green Card process encompasses 3 steps: Labor Certification PERM, I-140 Petition
and Adjustment of Status Application. VISANOW streamlines the entire process helping
employers manage PERM labor certification, I-140 and I-485 petitions and renewals.
VISANOW's innovative PERM technology helps simplify labor certification process
involved in employment-based green cards.
VISANOW blends innovative technology with a responsive staff of experienced attorneys,
offering superior service throughout the immigration process. Read the following
case studies to learn how VISANOW has aided other companies in managing the complex
U.S. immigration system.
“Hands down, we're very pleased with the VISANOW Web-based model. If I polled
all of our active and non-active employees who went through the process they would
agree. The control and empowerment ATMI employees have is priceless.”
Read the ATMI case study.
"With VISANOW, we experienced a significant reduction in the administrative
burden and the elimination of many typical communication hold-ups associated with
the traditional model of providing immigration services.”
Read the Tokyo
Electron case study.
Where can I learn more about the Green Card process?
VISANOW offers several best practice resources related to the Green Card process,
such as:
Managing the
Post-Recession Green Card Visa Application Process
