Green Cards And Eventual Citizenship – The Basics
We are a nation of immigrants and green card almost no one who lives in the United States has ancestors who were here one hundred years ago, much less two hundred years ago. It has been argued that what makes the United States a world power is not its natural wealth, which is less than Russia or China, or its system of education, which lags behind Europe and Russia, but its policy of letting the “best and the brightest” immigrate into our nation. One Client put it well: “Everyone who is motivated, hardworking, and intent on bettering themselves wants to come into the United States. You get the best people from all over the world.”
Elsewhere on this website are in depth articles about the types of visas that are available in business, for students, and for trade and the reader is advised to read them after reading this general article about “green cards,” since in those articles are far more details about the process of obtaining visas and eventually becoming a citizen of the United States. The purpose of this article is to outline briefly what precisely a “green card” is and how one seeks to obtain it and how it can lead to citizenship in the United States.