Issues of immigration in the United States of Russian citizens and other CIS countries

The emigration from Russia and other countries of the former USSR are thought of those of our fellow citizens who would like to work out, get an education in a prestigious Western university, move to relatives or to open a business in a favorable economic environment. In addition, many of our compatriots are considering political asylum. One of the most popular immigration directions remains US for many years. But before leaving, you need to choose the base. The country's legislation provides several legal immigration methods, of which any applicant can choose the most appropriate. The design procedure is sufficiently long in time, since it provides for many inspections by migration services. Those of candidates who manage to go through all the selection circles are obtained as a remuneration of privileges, there are little different from the rights of US citizens. Getting a residence permit can be the first step towards issuing citizenship. What should a foreigner know, decided to immigrate to America?

Methods of immigration to America from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan

Immigrate in the US citizens of the Russian Federation and other CIS countries may be based on:

• employment;
• studies;
• opening business;
• investment;
• receiving asylum;
• reunion with family;
• marriage / marriage;
• winning in the immigration lottery.

The presence of real estate in the United States cannot be considered as a sufficient condition for obtaining a residence permit.

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Moving at work

The US Embassy in Moscow is located at: Large Nestinsky Lane, 8

Interview at the embassy

On the appointed day, the applicant must go to the consular embassy department for interviews. In addition to the documents already submitted, the interview must be taken with you:

• confirmation of registration of documents delivery;
• a printed confirmation page completed earlier in the online questionnaire DS-260 http://photos.state.gov/librurseys/russia/231771/pdfs/immigrant-visa-russian-instrux.pdf;
• the original and a copy of the passport, the term of which expires at least two months after the expiration date of the visa (i.e., as a rule, 8 months after receiving a visa);
• certificates of birth, marriage and divorces (if marriage is not the first);
• for applicants older than 16 years - a certificate of the absence of condoms received no earlier than a year before applying;
• if in the past were a criminal record - a copy of the court decision;
• military ID;
• the results of the medical examination;
• 2 color photos 50x50 mm;
• receipt of payment of the consular fee;
• documents confirming the level of qualification of the applicant in the specialty to which he claims to the United States;
• information from the employer about the level of wages and the availability of the workplace for the applicant.

Together with the applicant, all members of the family who are departed with him may be present at the interview.

To pass the interview, the applicant must appear in the consular department of the country's Embassy

Permission to work

The permission is made by the employer. You can check the current state of the application by clicking on the https://ceac.state.gov/cheac/. More detailed information on the requirements for job sediments in the United States - on the USCIS website https://www.uscis.gov/working-united-states/permanent-workers.

Employment of a foreign citizen in an American company is possible when compliance with conditions:

• failed to find a challenger from the United States citizens, which correspond to the requirements of the employer and ready to work for the proposed wage;
• the foreigner will not have a negative impact on the salary and working conditions of similarly employed US citizens.

The USCIS service uses a special scale of preferences when choosing a foreign worker, applying for a particular vacancy. In accordance with this scale, all applicants are divided into five categories.

Table: USCIS preferences when choosing permanent workers

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How to move to the family

A foreign citizen has the opportunity to immigrate in the United States through reunification with close relatives - parents, children, spouses or grooms and brides living in America. At the same time, a relative of the foreigner must be either a citizen of the United States or the owner of Green Card.

If in the States, a close relative of a potential immigrant wants to help him move to the country by receiving Green Card, it must confirm the availability of funds sufficient to sponsoring moving and the device in a new place. To begin the procedure for inviting their relatives citizen or a permanent resident of the United States with registration and submission for consideration in the USCIS petition in the form of I-130 establishing the degree of kinship.

US citizen has the right to invite family members for permanent residence

Preparation of the necessary documents and invitations

After the petition approval, a foreign citizen must implement a number of preliminary steps to prepare the documents that he will subsequently submit to the National Visa Center. First of all, you should choose a agent that will interact with the National Assessment: the applicant itself or any trustee can perform in this capacity. About your choice, the applicant must report in a special form of I-261, which can be filled in the consular center of electronic applications https://ceac.state.gov/iv/login.aspx. It may take up to three weeks to consider this form.

Next, you should pay for the fees by clicking on the https://ceac.state.gov/ctrac/invoice/signon.aspx link. Processing of payments, after which it appears the opportunity to proceed to the next step, may take 7 days. Then the applicant must submit a request for a visa by filling out the form I-260 on the website of the consular center of electronic statements (sample: https://travel.state.gov/content/dam/visas/ds-260%20Exemplar.pdf). A confirmation page of the decorated and sent document must be printed to take with me for an interview in the future.

The next step is to prepare financial documents. The receiving party fills one of the forms of the statement of monetary support of immigrant relatives, provides documentary evidence of its own income and indicates personal data: status, residence, degree of kinship with arriving persons.

The collected pars are attached to the base package, and the full set of visa documentation is sent for consideration in the National Assembly. All documents must have two copies and translation into English. Their study can take up to 6 weeks.

Interview

If the package of documents is approved, the applicant is invited to an interview to the consulate. As a rule, the interview is held two months after the supply of securities in the NCC. The date of the interview is reported to both the applicant and the receiving relative. By the time of arrival at an interview, the visa documentation leaves from the National Assembly to the Consular Department of Embassy.

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With you on the interview, in addition to the prepared package of documents, the applicant must have:

• help on the passage of the medical examination in one of the accredited clinics https://travel.state.gov/content/dam/visas/medical/mos%20-%20Moscow.pdf;
• confirmation of registration for courier services https://travel.state.gov/content/dam/visas/supplemental/mos%20-%20Moscow.pdf.

In addition, before passing the interview, the applicant must provide its biometric data - fingerprints and a digital photo.

All family members are entitled to attend the interview: as an emigrating and receiving party. If the applicant has no opportunity to arrive at the interview on time, it is necessary to report this to the consulate as early as possible. If the applicant did not appear during the year after the appointed duty of the interview, the request is canceled.

Following the interview, it is decided to approve or reject the petition. If the application is approved, a visa is affixed in the passport, and an emigrant is issued a sealed package with visa documentation, which will later need to submit to migration services upon arrival in the United States.

Do not sell real estate in your country, transport and other property, as well as purchase travel tickets before the final decision is made on your petition. The presence of a visa does not guarantee the unimpeded crossing of the border of the United States: a custom officer may refuse entry, if at the time of arrival your circumstances have changed.

Marriage (marriage)

If the US citizen intends to tie himself to marriage with a foreigner (s), he must issue a petition and submit it to consideration in USCIS. If the petition is approved, it is sent to the National Visa Center. In the National Assembly, this document is attached to the rest of the papers, which applied for consideration by a foreign applicant. In the case of a positive response to a petition, a non-ammigration Visa K-1 is issued, providing for the 90-day stay of a foreigner in the United States, during which marriage must occur. Immediately after that, a foreign citizen has the right to submit a request to Green Card. If applicants do not fit into the allotted time, the status of the groom or the bride is annulled, and the foreigner becomes illegal.

Having received a visa of the bride (groom) it is necessary to marry (married) during the first 90 days staying in the country

There are several ways as US citizens may assist in obtaining resident status to persons who do not have citizenship of the country, or the status of a resident, while wishing to make marriage with a citizen of the country.

The first way is to obtain a bride / groom's visa, for those cases where the alleged spouse is abroad, and the marriage is planned in the United States. This visa allows the bride / bride to visit the United States for up to 90 days for a wedding ceremony. After the marriage is concluded, the spouse has the right to submit an application for the status of a permanent resident, and remain in the country for the period of consideration of the application. If this method is selected, you should fill out the form I-129F, a petition for foreign relatives (Petition for Alien Fiance). It is available for download in the "Forms" section on the website www.uscis.gov. If the sent form of I-129F is received in USCIS, it is sent to the National Visa Center, which will consider it and will send an embassy or consulate of the USA to the place of residence of the Groom / Bride. Embassy or consulate will invite him / her for an interview for visa.

The second way is to make marriage abroad. If the marriage does not occur in the United States, the US spouse can apply for I-130 form, for foreign relatives (Petition for Alien Relative). To get more information about the last I-130 form, you should contact the user's manual A1, I am a US citizen, how can I help my relative to get the right to permanent accommodation in the USA? (I am a U.S. Citizen ... How do i ... Help My Relative Become A Permanent Resident of the United States?)

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Refuge

The reason for the provision of asylum may be the persecution of the country of permanent residence:

• on racial or national reasons;
• on religious reasons;
• for political activities;
• on the fact of belonging to certain social groups (for example, being a non-traditional sexual orientation).

The applicant for refugee status should be ready to submit quite convincing documentary evidence of oppression by the authorities in his country, because of which he escaped. You can apply for protection to provide protection from the territory of your country (on the status of Refugee) and being already in the United States (asylum). If the applicant has already arrived in the country, then it is necessary to submit a petition for seeking asylum than one year after arrival.

A package of documents for political asylum in the United States should include the correctly completed form I-589

Procedure

The issues of providing refugee status in the United States are within the competence of the Naturalization and USCIS Immigration Service. Start the procedure is necessary with the preparation of the package of documents - Case. The list of papers looks, as a rule, as follows:

• list of documents;
• filmed form I-589 https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/files/form/i-589.pdf;
• 2 photos 50x50 mm;
• history;
• Country Condition - a description of the political situation in the country from which a migrant arrived from official sources;
• passport;
• certificate of the birth of children;
• marriage certificate (divorce);
• confirming documentation: photos and video materials, letters, calls to the police, newspaper articles, etc.

To properly collect Case, many turn to specialized lawyers whose services can cost from 4 to 8 thousand dollars. All papers should have two copies and translation into English. Posted by mail Case is considered in USCIS 1.5 months. After about 7 days, the applicant will receive a notification that its request is made to consideration: from now on, a foreigner can use some benefits of legal stay - to get rights, for example, or employ 150 days after the request (regardless of which stage is located Consideration).

The next step is to pass the procedure for passing biometric data on which the applicant will be invited 10 days after acceptance of the application. The certificate received in the hands of the cycometry will need to always have with himself as a confirmation of the legality of staying in the country.

The provision of biometric data is a mandatory decoration of a residence permit in the country

Interview

The favorable outcome of the consideration of the petition can be largely predetermined by good preparation and passage of the interview. The applicant's information stated in history, as a rule, reproduces on the interview, reinforcing the story with documentary evidence. In addition, it will be necessary to answer the questions of the USCIS service employee, which will make the opinion of the Office of the Office regarding the possibility of providing a foreign citizen of political asylum. As a rule, the initial purpose of the applicant at the interview is to focus on the fact that the appeal to migration services is connected with oppression in their country, and not with a bad economic situation or other reasons. The applicant has the right to invite with him to interview the translator.

Immigrant rights that have received political asylum

The presence of ASYLUM gives the right to a foreign citizen:

• employed immediately after receiving status;
• to transport a family;
• a year later, apply for Green Card.

In addition, a foreigner who was granted asylum in the United States can take advantage of the services of Case Worker - a representative of a public organization dealing with the adaptation of immigrants, to receive a 2000 $ allowance for 8 months, to pass free English courses, use the coupons for food and in the case disability to make a pension.

If you have absolutely no livelihood, it can help justify the petition on the PU, but you must understand the following.

1. First you need to somehow get into the United States.
2. Your case will almost certainly be solved on an interview, most likely you will be transferred to court.
3. Wait for years.
4. Bending benefits You will not receive. If you are disabled, then the right to work that you will receive after a while, you will not help you hard.
5. The lawyers need to pay and for housing it is necessary to pay, and several orders of magnitude more than what you pay in the Crimea.

This is a difficult path, starting with the main issue - how to get to the United States.

Another option is to try not to refuge (asylum), but to refugee status (Refugee). Get it much more complicated than refuge, but you can submit it in Ukraine.

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How to go to america to study

Moving to the United States for the purpose of training involves obtaining a student visa of type M-1 or F-1. Submit a request under conditions:

• enrollments to one of the country's school institutions;
• availability of training;
• availability of housing in the USA;
• knowledge of the applicant of the English language;
• approval of the institution by customs and migration services, as having the right to accept foreign students.

Visa F-1 gives the right to study at university, college or in language courses. M-1 visa is provided for advanced training courses or vocational training.

US study provides for a student visa

Documentation

Before contacting the consular department of the Embassy, \u200b\u200bthe applicant must prepare the required package of documents:

• printed page filled in electronic form DS-160 http://ceac.state.gov/genniv/;
• active passport;
• visa photo of 50x50 mm size corresponding to the established requirements http://www.ustraveldocs.com/ru_ru/eniv-photoinfo.asp;
• completed and approved by the educational institution form I-20;
• receipt of payment of SEVIS collection (form I-901);
• invitation to the interview;
• confirmation of financial consistency;
• available diplomas and certificates of education.

You can sign up for an interview by clicking on the link https://cgifederal.secure.force.com/?language\u003drussian&country\u003drussia. In addition to these papers, the applicant has the right to take with him any supporting documents that can serve as an additional argument in favor of making a positive decision on the results of consideration of the request.

Is it possible to legally work a student

In general, for students there is an opportunity to work within the campus not more than 20 hours a week. During vacation, students have the right to work full day. Work outside the campus should be consistent with USCIS, i.e., special permission will be required. If the student has unforeseen financial difficulties, he may be given the possibility of an additional part-time.

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Emigration of investors

The United States invariably comes in the number of countries leaders in attracting foreign capital (along with China, Hong Kong, Great Britain). Foreigners who have the desire to place funds in the American economy can take advantage of the government program providing for an EB-5 investor visa. The opening and maintenance of business in the United States is comprehensively supported and stimulated by the state, the most favorable conditions for potential investors are created in the regions with low (compared to other territories) levels of development.

Every year, the EB-5 visa has the opportunity to receive 10 thousand foreign citizens. Among the advantages of owning such a document: the right to permanent accommodation and the accelerated procedure for issuing citizenship. Participation in this program provides for the creation of a minimum of 10 jobs for US citizens or persons legally living in the country, or investing capital in the amount of at least 500 thousand USD - for depressive areas of the economy or lagging regions, and 1 million USD (or more) - in other cases.

Unlike other types of visas, the design of EB-5 does not require the applicant knowledge of the language, the availability of qualifications, education. If the applicant is in his own country at the time of filing a petition, the visa should be applied to the consular department of the Embassy. If he is already in the United States on legal grounds, you should submit a request to the migration services for changing the status. Application is as a rule, from 9 to 12 months.

Among the requirements for a potential investor are the legal origin of capital: it will be necessary to submit tax documentation, domestic, etc. It is envisaged to invest both in the form of finance or equipment and in the form of intellectual property, such as copyright.

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How much is the design costs

The size of the consular fee depends on the type of permission. Prices are in dollars, but payment is accepted only in the currency of their country. For example, the Russians make money in rubles.

Table: The size of the fees depending on the type of visa

Departure in the USA and decoration of residence permit

After receiving a visa, you need to enter the territory of the United States within 6 months. After that, it is necessary to legalize - get a residence permit card. Officially, the document is called United States Permanent Resident Card, in an ordinary language - Green Card (Green card, green card). It will be simultaneously an identity card and confirmation of legal accommodation in the United States. With the map you can live on all the territories of America, from Miami to Alaska, and go abroad.

After expiration, the document is extended. To do this, you need to be a law-abiding resident, paying all the required taxes and most of the time to be in America. If a foreigner drove abroad for a period of half a year, the card may not extend.

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How to stay in america forever

You can constantly live in the USA with a green card, periodically extended it. But for this you need to meet all the conditions of immigration laws. If they are not respected, residence permit can be deprived.

After permanent residence in the country on legal grounds within 5 years, it is possible to apply for citizenship. To do this, you need to pass the exams in English, the history and constitution of the country and bring the oath of loyalty. The US authorities cannot deprive citizenship and send a passport holder from the country.