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You Need a Green Card?

by Anthony D. Williams

The United States government issues 55,000 Green Cards every year through the USA Green Card Lottery. Applicants are selected randomly by a computer generated drawing. If selected, the main applicant, spouse and all unmarried children under 21 years of age will have a chance to receive permanent resident status in the United States.

You must be native of a country with a low immigration rate to the U.S.A. to qualify for the Green Card Lottery. People born in countries with high U.S. immigration are excluded from this lottery. Please see the list below of countries whose natives are currently excluded from the Green Card Lottery. Please note that eligibility is determined only by the country of birth, not based on country of citizenship or current residence. This is the most common misperception.

The following countries are excluded from the lottery program (subject to change): China (mainland only) Vietnam South Korea Philippines Brazi Peru Ecuador Pakistan India Mexico Jamaica United Kingdom (except N.Ireland) Canada Dominican Republic Colombia Haiti El Salvador Poland

Education or Work experience

You must comply to one of the following two requirements (Option 1 or Option 2 below) to qualify for the Green Card Lottery:

You must have completed a foreign equivalent of U.S. high school education “High School education or its equivalent” means the successful completion of a twelve year course of elementary and secondary education in the U.S. or successful completion in another country of a formal course of elementary and secondary education comparable to complete a 12 year education in the U.S.Passage of a high school equivalency examination is not sufficient. It is permissible to have completed one’s education in less than twelve years or greater than twelve years if the course of study completed is equivalent to a U.S. high school education.

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Anthony Williams williams.anthony534@gmail.com I hope you find what you need with this information

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  1. JoiseeGed says

    Lots of folks blog about this subject but you said really true words.



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