United States immigration is a contemporary issue not only affecting all American citizens,
but also, any foreign national wishing to reside within the United States
as well. In 2006, America allowed thirty-seven and a half million
immigrants enter United
States soil, which was significantly more
than any other country throughout the world.
In the year 2006, immigrants granted permanent residency status in the United States increased by almost twelve percent
from the previous year with nearly 1.3 million immigrants acquiring permanent
resident status within America. Many of these immigrant initially entered the
United States
via student visas, work visas, tourist visas, temporarily residency permits, or
illegally.
Within the United States,
each municipality has the rights to determine the amount of police interdiction
necessary into curtailing immigration within the United States. Some cities currently employ sanctuary
statutes, which ban police authorities from asking persons about their
residency or immigration status. For
this reason, the following states, which all contain one or more of these
sanctuary cities, contain a large immigrant population.
The most common destinations of United States immigration include
the following states:
- Illinois
- New
Jersey
- Pennsylvania
- Texas
- Florida
-
New
York
- California
Due to the juxtaposition to the United
States, immigrants coming from Mexico,
the Caribbean, and Latin America make up the large portion of the number of
immigrants legally entering the United
States, and in addition, these countries
also produce millions of illegal immigrants annually.
In 2006, the top ten migrant-sending countries with
immigrants attaining permanent residency in the United States in descending order include:
- Mexico
with 173,753 immigrants
- China
with 87,345 immigrants
-
Philippines
with 74,607 immigrants
- India
with 61,369 immigrants
- Cuba
with 45,614 immigrants
- Colombia
with 43,151 immigrants
- Dominican
Republic with 38,069 immigrants
- El
Salvador with 31,783 immigrants
-
Vietnam
with 30,695 immigrants
- Jamaica
with 24,976 immigrants
In order to acquire permanent residency status within the United States, immigrants must seek the
assistance of an immigration lawyer in order to properly apply for citizenship or green card, and file all necessary
documenting papers to help in their request to move to America. For many individuals, the process of gaining
permanent residency inside the United States is not simple, but rather, a
complex process involving multi-part strategies that only an immigration lawyer
would full know how to implement and which scenarios call for their
implementation. Besides application for
permanent residency, individual foreigners may immigrate to the United States
through a number of other documented methods including nonimmigrant employment
visas (B-1, H-1B, or L1 visa), nonimmigrant immediate relative visas (K
visa, K1 visa, K3 visa), nonimmigrant tourism visas (B-2 visas), or immigrant visas. Once inside the country with a documented
visa, the process of attaining a V Visa
or LPR Green Card from which an immigrant is deemed a permanent legal
resident. Aside from using one of the
many visa types to immigrate to the United States and in turn, acquire
a permanent residency status, immigrants can also seek asylum under refugee
status. According to the Federal Budget
of the Fiscal Year 2008, the United
States will accept exactly 80,000 refugees
seeking asylum during that annual financial period.
Do you or your loved
ones wish to immigrate to the United
States of America? Contact an immigration attorney right away
to start your immigration strategy today!