Wednesday, June 27, 2012

How to Get US Residency Legally

This post is about the immigration laws of a nation and the various policies one has to go through in order to apply for visas to the United States.

The national government policies which control the immigration of foreign citizens to the nation are the immigration laws. The laws regarding a foreign citizen are related to nationality laws governing the legal status of the individual such as the citizenship of the person. There is a varying nature of these laws from one country to another according to the political scenario of the time. The regulation of an immigration law of a country is done by international law. It is mandatory by The United Nations International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights for a nation to allow its own citizens to enter. Passport is a major travel document for any nation.
Where for most countries the process for naturalization is there to allow immigrants to become legal citizens, but for some nations the nature of law is rather strict regarding the right to entry and the internal rights of a person which are the period of stay and the participation in the government. For a nation like the United States, there has been an uneven progress in the immigration laws of the nation. For the Colonial period the laws were created by the independent colonies for themselves and the Naturalization Act of 1790 was the first attempt to naturalize the foreign citizens. Many years later through various passed set of laws the Immigration and Naturalization Service was created by the Immigration and Nationality Act passed in the year 1952.

How to get through the immigration process to successfully get the US residency?
One has to go through five major department of the federal government. Those five major departments will be Department of Homeland Security, the Department of State, the Department of Labor, the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Justice. The Immigration and Naturalization service was replaced by the Department of Homeland Security enforcing immigration laws and bestowing benefits on aliens. It comprises of three subdivided departments: Immigration and Customs Enforcement, US Residency and Immigration Services, and Customs and Border protection.

Diversity Visa Lottery is a scheme conducted by the Federal government with which it grants the citizens of another nation to enter legally into the United States. There are two kinds of visas for which one can apply. For people seeking to have a US residency it is termed as the Immigrant Visas, while for people coming for a limited period it is termed as Non-Immigrant Visas. The Immigrant visa has "per country-caps". For the Non-Immigrant category the purpose may be work which usually requires letters from a US business, the offer of employment. The other category may be family, tourist visas and student. It is mandatory to have Travel documents which include passport, an onward ticket and a Carte Jaune. So the answer to the question of how to get the US residency one has to have the other two travel document along with the passport.

2 comments:

  1. There are so many things to consider before you can acquire your citizenship. So if your planning to be an immigrant/emigrant better think twice.

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  2. you are right about that there are many things to consider and the other is that in federal elections you can not vote as residents or like a federal ones you hold certain jobs . basically we can watchedby uscis with the same except like Self Petition Green Card.

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