{"id":5659,"date":"2022-01-16T14:14:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-16T20:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krilaw.com\/?p=5659"},"modified":"2026-04-07T15:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T20:34:10","slug":"factors-impacting-your-eligibility-for-a-green-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krilaw.com\/pl\/factors-impacting-your-eligibility-for-a-green-card\/","title":{"rendered":"Factors Impacting Your Eligibility for a Green Card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To <a href=\"https:\/\/krilaw.com\/services\/immigration-lawyers-chicago\/green-cards\/\">apply for a green card<\/a>, one must go through a legal process that can be cumbersome and sometimes very frustrating, especially in how long the process takes. While some of the time it takes to process a green card application is due to processing backlogs created by caps in the number of visas available each year, other delays are due to shoddy filing by the applicant with incomplete or missing information. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kriezelman Burton &amp; Associates, LLC<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, can help those seeking to apply for green cards in the Chicago area to do so successfully. We also take immigration cases for clients in Indiana, Wisconsin, and Michigan.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Eligibility for Green Card Application<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Obtaining a Green Card is something many non-US citizens aspire to accomplish, whether they are here in the United States or outside the country. A Green Card is desirable for many because it allows the holder of that status the ability to live permanently in the United States and to work. The status also puts one on a <a href=\"https:\/\/krilaw.com\/services\/immigration-lawyers-chicago\/citizenship-and-naturalization\/\">pathway to U.S. citizenship<\/a>, which can be obtained after 3 or 5 years of being a Green Card holder, depending on how one obtains their Green Card.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The following are the common ways one obtains a Green Card in the United States:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Through family;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Through employment;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a Special Immigrant;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Through refugee or asylee status;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As human trafficking or crime victim;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a victim of abuse;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, obtaining a green card is not always as easy as some people can attest. To begin with, to apply for a green card, one must demonstrate that they are eligible to apply. Several factors are considered to determine whether one is eligible to apply, and these are:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Having a qualifying family member through which the green card is sought, and these are typically a U.S. citizen and lawful permanent resident spouse or child.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Having a job or job offer in the U.S. and the prospective employer has done the necessary to have their petition for your employment visa application considered.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you are self-petitioning as an entrepreneur, demonstrating that you have enough money to create a company in the U.S.; or,<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you are a <a href=\"https:\/\/krilaw.com\/services\/immigration-lawyers-chicago\/asylum\/\">refugee or seeking asylum<\/a>, you meet the definition of a refugee.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although this is not an exhaustive list of all the factors considered in determining eligibility to apply for a green card, these are some of the most common factors considered, and failure to satisfy any that applies to your case could render your application rejected and not considered at all.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moreover, just because one satisfies the eligibility criteria to apply for a green card does not mean that they will therefore have their green card application automatically approved. Rather, meeting the eligibility criteria only moves the application to the next step in the process, and this is where the application will be subject to thorough examination and interrogation to render a final decision on whether to approve or not.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Discuss Your Situation With an Illinois Green Card Attorney<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you are contemplating applying for a Green Card, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">contact<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> our office and speak to one of our experienced immigration attorneys about your situation. Although we are based in Chicago, we also take cases in Indiana, Wisconsin, and Michigan.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To apply for a green card, one must go through a legal process that can be cumbersome and sometimes very frustrating, especially in how long the process takes. While some of the time it takes to process a green card application is due to processing backlogs created by caps in the number of visas available &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/krilaw.com\/pl\/factors-impacting-your-eligibility-for-a-green-card\/\" class=\"more-link\">Czytaj dalej<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201eFactors Impacting Your Eligibility for a Green Card\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":5660,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"2normal","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,39,1,40],"tags":[266,135,64,26],"class_list":["post-5659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family_based_immigration","category-green_cards","category-immigration-law","category-visas","tag-chic","tag-citizenship","tag-green-card","tag-green-card-lawyer","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krilaw.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krilaw.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krilaw.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krilaw.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krilaw.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/krilaw.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11813,"href":"https:\/\/krilaw.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5659\/revisions\/11813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krilaw.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krilaw.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krilaw.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krilaw.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}