After you have received an appropriate job deal from a U.S. company (if you need a task deal under your potential classification of lawful long-term residence), getting a U.S. green card is a multistage process. Here, we'll offer an introduction.

Basic Steps to Receiving U.S. Lawful Permanent Residence Based Upon Employment
Exceptional Case: Requesting a U.S. Lawful Permanent Residence Without Labor Certification
Lawful Permanent Residence for Spouse and Children of Employee
Basic Steps to Receiving U.S. Lawful Permanent Residence Based on Employment

In brief, making an application for a work based green card includes these steps:

- Your potential employer demands what's called a prevailing wage determination (PWD) from the U.S. Department of Labor, using the online FLAG system. The PWD is the Department of Labor's formal judgment regarding how much cash is normally paid to individuals in tasks like the one you have actually been provided. The PWD will generally expire within a year or less, employment so it will be necessary to hire for and submit the PERM labor accreditation quickly after the PWD is released.

• Your company advertises and recruits for the task you have actually been offered and eventually figures out (in good faith) that there are no qualified U.S. workers offered and happy to take the task.
• Your company files a PERM labor accreditation application online, using the electronic USDOL Form 9089.
• You wait the a number of months that the DOL will require to adjudicate the PERM labor certification application, and mail the licensed PERM application to your company (this time frame can extend up to a year if the DOL picks your PERM application for audit).
• Within 180 days of the PERM labor certification approval, your company prepares and files a petition utilizing Form I-140, provided by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).
• After USCIS authorizes the petition, you wait until a visa is readily available. It may be instantly offered, if the number of individuals who applied in your classification in that same year is less than the number of visas readily available