Move To The USA, Today

By Doug Dimon

Your complete guide to getting a visa, finding a job, and starting a new life in the United States of America.
With the help of this eBook, you will learn:
1) How to immigrate legally to the USA: Use this book to learn about the application process for every visa and understand the immigration options available for every situation. Whether you are a student, an asylum seeker or looking for a job, you need to read this book. Get helpful tips from an immigration expert to prepare your application and real life testimonials so you know what to expect when you arrive.
2) How to prepare yourself to enter the job market: Whether you are continuing in a profession you left off, or are starting fresh, the guidelines here will help you understand the legal requirements for immigrants seeking employment on their visa. Learn how to search for a job in the United States, including helpful guidelines for resumes, interview etiquette and more.
3) How to live like an American: Using real life examples, this book teaches you what you need to know to fit in with your neighbors, understand American customs, and pursue the American Dream, no matter where in the country you and your family choose to settle. Put yourself on the path to a better life today!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Winston X
• Release date: Nov 17, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370877805

Doug Dimon

Doug Dimon has over 10 years of experience with immigration law and international human rights. He was born to immigrant parents in New York City and is a graduate of the University of Illinois and the University of California. He lives with his wife and dog in Los Angeles. He is a lifelong believer in the transformative power of the American Dream.

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Acknowledgements

Thank you to all my American friends and family. Without you, this work wouldn't be possible. Thank you especially to Deborah, Peter and Joseph. I love you.

Introduction

People may have told you that it's difficult to immigrate to the USA. Don't listen to these people! It's true that the immigration process itself is complex. There are many laws involved, and a great deal of bureaucratic machinery. It's true that money is very important, there's a great deal of competition for the best jobs and you'll have to work your way up once there. It's true that moving to a new country and trying to understand the culture and the people doesn't come naturally, though the faster you adapt the better off you'll be. However, armed with the right information, applying for a visa is as simple painting by numbers. With the right job search method, you can distinguish yourself and get noticed by the company that you want to work for. With a little guidance, you'll see that for all their differences, Americans are bound by shared common values that you can learn and participate in. Once you know what to do, it's not so hard to move to the USA, today.

Consider this book your expert guide to the immigration process, from the beginning, your application, to the end, assimilation. Imagine that someone has asked you to deliver a letter in New York City, a city that you have never visited in your entire life. All you have is the address: such-and-such a number at such-and-such a street. You get out of the subway in Times Square, the heart of New York City. The crowds of people, the roaring of buses and taxi cabs, the flashing lights from skyscrapers are overwhelming. You need to figure out how to get to your destination.

The best way to get there is to ask an expert. In this case, an expert would be someone who has spent their entire life in New York and knows all the streets by heart. With them on your side, all you need to do is follow the guide. When you embark on your immigration journey, whatever you do, you want to try your best to avoid getting lost. Allow this book to guide you, so that you embark on the journey of your life prepared to succeed.

About one million people become lawful permanent residents in the United States each year. Thirty million people receive temporary visas each year. There's room for you too. This book will help you identify the best way for you, as an individual, to apply for immigration papers. The second goal of this book is to help you make the best of your life in the United States so you can pursue your American dream. This means getting a good a job to support yourself and your family on, a job with a company that interests you, where you'll be motived to do your best work. Some people say the real difficulty comes after you've immigrated, in the social domain, when you're trying to find your place and fit into a new life in the United States. This book will teach you the street smarts you need to find your way around.

The USA is a nation of immigrants. If the path before you seems daunting, remember that you're not the first to have faced it.

Part One: A Guide To Getting A Visa For The USA

Getting an immigrant visa is your first step towards working and living permanently in the USA. The easiest way to get an immigrant visa is to have someone sponsor you. A sponsor is someone from the United States who knows you and supports your plan to immigrant to the United States. Your sponsor could be a family member who is a U.S. Citizen, a U.S. lawful permanent resident, or your soon-to-be employer in the USA.

The secret is finding out exactly where you fit in. For example, you may be applying for a visa to be reunited with a relative, or you may be applying for job reasons. Whatever your approach, once you know how your situation fits in to the United States's bureaucratic immigration machinery, there is a very specific path for you to follow.

You will be able to weigh the pros and cons of each immigration route as they relate to your specific situation. Once you have decided how you are going to immigrate, this book will provide you with step-by-step directions to apply. If you follow these instructions exactly, you will put yourself in the best possible position to start your new life in the USA.

Immigration is a big subject so you might not find every paragraph or even every chapter relevant to your situation. This is normal. My goal is to write a book that is a resource for many different types of people. When you find that you need more specific advice, consider consulting an immigration lawyer.

Make good use of the table of contents in this book. It's there to help you find the information that is most relevant for you. Once you identify where you fit into the immigration puzzle, the table of contents will allow you to skip around to find the information you need, fast.

My goal is to make the process of immigrating to the United States as clear and easy to understand as possible. To that end, the book is set up to give you the big picture first and to allow you to turn to the concrete details when you need to. The way I have formatted it, you will be able to read through the book in one go to get an overview of the immigration process, then to go back and individually examine each step in more detail when you are ready to apply. I believe that this provides the most streamlined reading process for you as it allows you to read at your own pace and to read what is relevant to your own situation.

Take heart: tens of thousands of immigrants before you have taken this same path. As they say, all roads lead to Rome, or perhaps 'they' really meant all roads lead to New York City, the number one immigrant gateway to the USA, which is in turn the number one destination for immigrants in the world.

Chapter One: The Basics

From a distance, all the bureaucracy necessary to legally immigrate to the USA can seem very intimidating. In some ways, the process that is supposed to bring you into the country may seem like it is there to keep you out.

Immigration politics are complicated. On the one hand, there are many people in the USA who are very happy to welcome immigrants into their country. Many of them were once immigrants or remember the stories of family members who immigrated. On the other hand, many people worry about immigrants who won't be able to support themselves, or who might commit crimes in their new country.

In a way, immigration is like inviting strangers into your house. It's not possible to invite everyone. So, there are a lot of regulations in place to make sure that people can come into the country without making life unrealistically difficult for people who are already here. Sometimes these two competing positive and negative impulses make the process more confusing than it has to be. Even if you don't always understand the rules themselves, it will help to understand the reasons they were created.

You might be able to guess that there are certain types of immigrants that are more welcome than others in the USA.This is true.

You will have an easier time immigrating if you:

- Have money to support yourself and spend on U.S. goods

- Have skills that make you useful as a worker

- Have family already in the U.S. that can support and welcome you

- Are in danger in your home country because of war or humanitarian crises and need asylum.

You will find it much harder to legally immigrate if you:

- Do not have enough money to support yourself while you get settled in a new country

- Have committed a crime

- Are a threat to the U.S. politically or in terms of national security

- Have committed immigration violations like living in the U.S. illegally

- Lie or cheat in order to immigrate

- Don't fit the eligibility categories for immigration defined by U.S. law

There are lots of forms to fill out. Everyone who comes to the country to do has to do it. Thousands do all the time, so you can do it too.

If you are a good fit and you successfully complete the immigration process, you will be welcomed into the country. If there is some problem with your application, another immigrant will happily take your place.

Remember, if you ever have questions about something you're doing on your application, you can always talk to an immigration attorney. Every immigrant is different and even just a single personalized consultation with a specialist might help you clarify what your case requires.

Chapter Two: Immigration Steps

The U.S. immigration system is like a staircase. This section will give you a quick overview of each of the steps you'll climb on your journey to the USA.

The first step is to make sure you don't have anything in your background that makes you ineligible to immigrate to the USA.

For example, you will not be allowed to immigrate if:

- You have committed certain types of crimes

- You carry certain contagious diseases; you don't have money and will need the government to pay for you to survive in the USA

- You have already violated U.S. immigration laws in the past. If you have already lived in the USA illegally for more than six months, you may face a ban of several years before you are allowed to apply to immigrate legally.

The next step is to find out what type of visa you are eligible to apply for. You may already know, for example, if you get married to a U.S. citizen, you will apply for a green card based on this. Or, you may want to apply for a student visa to study at a university in the USA. However, you may have to spend some time to research the immigration categories and examine your own background. This book will cover all of your options for visas and green cards in the chapters that follow.

The next step, or several steps, involve completing the application process for a visa. Even if you are eligible for a visa, you can't get one immediately. Unfortunately, you'll also have to file paperwork and wait for a response. The application process will involve collecting documents, filling out forms and follow up quickly on any requests you receive from the government on the subject of your application.

Finally, there's a short cut ramp around the back of immigration staircase for those lucky few who have U.S. citizens as parents or grandparents. If this is you, then you are already technically U.S. citizens. All you'll have to do is fill out some paperwork for a U.S. passport and you can legally move to the USA.

There's lots of information you'll have to know to immigrate. You have to know your rights as an application, the procedures you follow for your application and the tips and strategies that will help you succeed. Regardless of your method, if you follow the steps and make it to the top of the landing, you'll be on your way to living your American dream on American dirt.

Chapter Three: Basic Vocabulary

I have tried to write this book in simple language so that you can easily understand all of the immigration information even if English is not your native language. Unfortunately, immigration law is often complicated and hard to understand, regardless of what language you speak. To help you with specific words that are frequently used in the immigration application process, here is a short dictionary of immigration vocabulary.

U.S. citizen – Someone who is an official member of U.S. society, for life. This person is entitled to all of the rights and protections of U.S. laws. This person is entitled to live and work in the USA. A person can become a U.S. citizen by birth if they are born inside the borders of the USA or if their parents or grandparents are citizens. A person can also become a U.S. citizen by naturalization. To become a citizen in this way, they normally must live in the USA for several years, apply for citizenship and pass