Students with green card status can enjoy American education like local students, while international students need a visa to study in the United States to receive education in the United States. We should not only avoid the risk of immigration tendency, but also prepare fully credible documents and materials, and have a certain level of English in order to get a visa smoothly.
2. Tuition advantage
The United States implements free and compulsory education in primary and secondary schools (except private schools), and students with green card status can enjoy public free education in primary and secondary schools in the United States like local students. In state universities, the tuition fees of American green card residents are only one-third of those of international students.
3. Loans and scholarships
/kloc-more than 0/8 students with green card status can apply for various kinds of student loans; In terms of scholarships, students with green cards can apply for more scholarships than international students.
Step 4 enter school
Generally, the number of international students enrolled in the United States accounts for only 5%~ 10% of the total enrollment each year, and it is open to the whole world. Students with green cards have more places to enroll. Take Harvard University as an example. In the past seven years, 90% to 95% of the places were reserved for permanent residents or citizens, and about 2,000 local students were admitted every year.
5. Part-time job
Restricted by their status, international students can only apply for a limited number of part-time jobs on campus, with low technical content; Students with green card status, however, have fewer work restrictions and are free to choose their off-campus work places, with more job categories.
6. Medical expenses
The high medical expenses of international students can only be borne by commercial insurance or at their own expense. The medical expenses of students with green card status are mostly borne by social insurance, and they can get more care and care from their parents at any time.
7. Employment opportunities
There are no restrictions on American green card holders to work in the United States, and the US government also has specialized agencies to find jobs for citizens or permanent residents free of charge. Even if international students find a job in the United States, they must not only compete for an H- 1B work visa, but also apply for a green card during their H- 1B status, usually for about 6 years. If you can't get a green card within this period, you can only leave the United States.
Further reading: specific requirements for applying for EB-5 investment immigration in the United States
(1) Establish a new business enterprise; Or acquire existing enterprises and transform or reorganize them into new commercial enterprises; Either expand the original enterprise to make its net assets and employees reach the original 140%, or invest in a difficult enterprise, that is, an enterprise whose net assets have depreciated by 20% in the past 1 2 years, and keep all the existing employees. Investment must use real funds, including cash, machinery and equipment, inventory and other property. If you invest with bank loans, you must use the investor's own private property? A loan obtained by mortgage. Bonds, bills or loans between investors and invested enterprises are not investments. If there is any guarantee between the investor and the invested enterprise that the investment can be recovered or profitable, it is not regarded as investment.
(2) The investment should reach one million dollars. You can invest $500,000 in some specific areas, which refer to areas where the national unemployment rate is 1.5 times or some specific rural areas.
(3) Create full-time employment opportunities for American citizens or green card holders who are not less than 10. The immigration law defines "full-time employees" as employees who work at least 35 hours a week. If you invest in a difficult enterprise, the net assets have depreciated by 20% in the past 1 to 2 years, then you should keep all existing employees for at least 2 years.