Richard CanfieldPodcast Host and IBC Advisor, Ascendant Financial · Authorized Infinite Banking Practitioner | Author of 4 Books

3 Smart Ways to Get a Green Card

9 May 2025 · 1 min

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Three main paths to a U.S. green card: family sponsorship, employment-based routes like EB-3 and H-1B (typically 2-3 years), and EB-5 investor visas requiring $800,000 minimum to fund projects that create 10 full-time jobs.

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$800,000

10 full-time US jobs per applicant

About 2–3 years

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The green card process. Can you step through at a surface level what that looks like for somebody?
There's generally only a few ways to get a green card. The first is through family. Either you're married to a US citizen or you have immediate family members and sometimes even with immediate family members the wait time is quite long for that. The second and I think it's probably the most common way is through employment. Your employer transferred you down. They might have wanted to pursue a green card for you. With EB3 or H1B that takes usually about two to three years to complete but it is the most common way because I think a lot of companies are bringing foreign talent in and I see it quite frequently with larger companies as well. There's also what I mentioned, EB5, which is green card by investment. The minimum investment for that is 800,000 and it goes into a project that is meant to create 10 full time US jobs per applicant.