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No Cost American Citizenship By William Cate
Full employment is a cornerstone to political stability
everywhere in the world. In Democratic societies, elections that
follow a Recession or Depression usually ensure that the
politicians in power lose their jobs to a new wave of
politicians promising full employment. In this context, many
countries' immigration policy reflects their recognition for the
need to create jobs. The United States has taken limited steps
to use its immigration policy to encourage an increase in
domestic employment. Any astute multinational corporation can
use the opportunity that the U.S. Government's immigration
policy has created to allow key employees to become American
citizens without cost.
There are four American immigration visas that multinational
corporations have used to convert U.S. residency into American
citizenship
I. EB-1-3 Multinational Executive Visa is a request for
permanent US residence. Applicants do not go through the lengthy
and burdensome process of labor certification. The only visa
requirement is that the multinational corporation furnishes the
applicant a job. The visa application must state that the
applicant will be employed in the United States in a managerial
or executive capacity. The multinational corporation must have
been doing business, for at least one year in the United States,
before submitting a EB-1-3 Visa application. The applicant must
have worked for the company outside the USA as an executive or
manager for at least three years prior to filing the Visa
Application. This visa is intended to give the executive
permanent residency status in the United States. In theory, it
precludes the visa holder from applying for U.S. citizenship.
However, working in the multinational corporation's U.S. office
allows the executive to attain a "green card." With a green
card, the executive is on the path to being a U.S. citizen.
II. The L-1 Intra-Company Transfer Visa is designed to allow
employees of a multinational corporation, with an affiliate,
subsidiary company or branch operating in the US, to come to
work for that branch in the US. There is no annual quota. The
multinational corporation must have continuously employed the
L-1 applicant outside the USA for at least one year within the
past three years. The multinational corporation must own the
U.S. subsidiary. The applicant must be employed as a manager,
executive or have "specialized knowledge." The applicant must
intend to depart the US when his or her stay is over. However,
the applicant may also pursue permanent residency (An EB-1-3
Visa) simultaneously with his or her residence, without a
negative impact on the ability to keep or extend an L-visa.
III. III. E-2 Investor Visa only applies to passport holders
from a select group of countries. The multinational corporation
must be incorporated in one of this select group of countries.
The visa applicant must be an active investor in the company.
They must work as a manager or executive for the multinational
corporation. The applicant investor must plan to depart the USA
when the E-2 visa expires.
In theory, none of the above three U.S. Visas allow the visa
holder to become a U.S. citizen. However, attorneys can use any
of these visas as a basis for a citizenship application. It
takes time and there is an uncertain outcome to anyone relying
on these visas as the path to U.S. Citizenship. Under present
U.S. Law, the U.S. EB-5 Visa is the only application that can
directly lead to eventual U.S. Citizenship
IV. The statutory requirements of the U.S. EB-5 Visa category
are onerous. This option could require that your multinational
corporation lend a U.S. Government approved project US$1,000,000
to create at least ten U.S. jobs. There is an annual quota of
10,000 EB-5 visas. However, only about 1,000 applicants are
actually accepted into the United States each year under the
EB-5 Visa program. There is a rigorous and lengthy application
process. Qualifying a person for EB-5 status is one of the most
complicated subspecialties in immigration law. A sophisticated
knowledge of corporate, tax, investment and immigration laws are
all required. Multinational corporations must discard normal
investment opportunities in favor of investments structured to
meet the unrealistic requirements of the EB-5 Visa regulations.
To use any of these U.S. Visa options, your road to becoming a
U.S. citizen without cost requires that you must solve three
related problems.
The 21st Century will be the Century of the Multinational
Corporation. No cost American citizenship is only one advantage
that multinational corporations have over national companies.
Any national company that hasn't considered evolving into a
multinational corporation doesn't see the economic handwriting
on the wall. The ebook, Venture Capital Profits, offers one
logical way to move your company forward into the global
village. The money needed to follow this international vision is
readily available.
You will need a creative and competent immigration law firm to
make the current American visa process work for you. I've
outlined the requirements for the U.S. visas that have worked
for multinational corporations. However, I'm not an attorney.
The advantages of the law firm that I recommend are outlined at:
[http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/id36.html]
Creating jobs is the justification for allowing executives of
multinational corporations to become U.S. citizenship without
cost. Like all legal systems, there is an Achilles heel that
leverages a positive outcome from any of these visa
applications. You can research and find this outcome on the Net.
Or, you can work with Beowulf Investments and we'll suggest it.
In either case, you'll find that it is possible to get a U.S.
passport, without wading across the Rio Grande River.
About the author:
He has been the Managing Director of Beowulf Investments
[http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/] since 1981 and
is the Executive Director of the Global Village Investment Club
[http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/globalvillageinves
tmentclubwelcome/] You can email Mr. Cate at:
Beowulfinvestments@Earthlink.net
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