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Originally Posted by sdeshpan
Nah, I don't care about bringing relatives in...its tough to get settled here myself...the Green Card is a distant dream for now, after all the retrogression in the Employment-based categories...
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Whoa .... you have been here for 6 years plus, studied here, got your degree here, and you still have NO green card ?
Are you still then living here on your student visa or what ???
In my case, I came here by invitation of the US government.
May sound ridiculous, but in the early 60's, the European brain drain was going strong due the fact the the US was actually into a Spare Race with the rest of the world.
I thus received a *green card* immediately, and then lived here for 5 years, and then became a US citizen. During that time, the draft lottery was still going and I was *lucky enough*
to be chosen to serve in the Armed Forces. Now that was kind of ridiculous, because the US Government invited me to work on the Space Programme (I have a Masters in Aeronautics) and then they draft my butt into the Armed Services ....
Whatever ......
Still had to wait for 5 years until I was able to start he process of becoming a citizen.
In your case, I think, what you need is get your employer to help you with your quest. I did the same thing for an employee of mine, and went trough all kinds of legal mumbo jumbo (that is really all I can call it. I am well versed in higher Mathematics and Physics, but I simply do not understand legal verbiage ... or double talk ...), but we got it done. He received his green card in a short time.
In short, your employer must create a need to keep you as a valued employee. He must advertise the job in several news papers, and then prove that you and you alone are the only employee, that can fill that job.
after that, we used an immigration lawyer to do the rest.
Again in our case, I mentioned that the applicant must be multi lingual with at least four languauges fluent, very few people are fluent in 4 languages (English, French, German and Dutch),
thus making the window of opportunity small,
must have a Masters degree in whatever discipline you have, imagine to be able to speak 4 languages fluent, PLUS having a Masters degree, again makes the window very small.
Only two applicants (they were both Dutch) applied and it was thus easy for me to ask questions that the applicants could not answer to *my satisfaction* ....
In reality, the requirements were for real !!!
We really needed a multi lingual person since we operate world wide.
A Masters Degree was the minimum I would accept, period, no if's, and's or but's.
In your case, you probably speak English plus your native tongue.
Your job however, *seems* today to be a dime a dozen.
Nothing negative about it but the IT industry today, was like Aerospace Engineering in the late 60's ..... We could pick and choose from a tremendous pool of young engineers.
Hope that this was a bit of help to get you going.
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