Immigration Attorney In Dallas, Texas

Immigration procedures are complex and very tedious. There are two categories of people who reside in this country who are not deemed to be Amercans by the United States Citizen and Immigration Services (otherwise known as USCIS). The two categories are: 1) legal permanent residents, otherwise known as green card holders and 2) non immigrants. Then, there are people who are here illegally, which will not be mentioned here. Lawful Permanent Residents (green card holders) can usually get a greed card through family relationships with U.S. citizens or legal permanent residents, sponsored by employers, have extraordinary abilities or talent (like professional baseball players. Also, executives qualify under this category as well), or who has enough money to invest over a million dollars. In other words, this country will give lawful permanent residents to people who are either rich, has special extraordinary skills, of can perform work that Americans cannot do, and then the based on family relationships to the U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident here. Of course, President Trump is trying to limit the granting of lawful permanent residency based on family relationships. (Currently American citizens can petition their parents, children, and their spouses to come to this country and be granted status as lawful permanent residents. However, President Trump is trying to limit the family based immigration to just the spouse and children.). Once someone is granted a lawful permanent resident status (green card), they can eventually apply to become a U.s. citizen. Nonimmigrant visas on the other hand will never be able to apply to become a U.S. citizen. Nonimmigrant visas are usually for tourists or temporary workers, or for people who will set up or purchase a business here and hire U.S. workers. An example is an E-2 visa.