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Companies That Sponsor Green Cards

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A lot of people who come to the US on dual intent visas like the H-1B visa, O-1 Visa and L-1 Visa and the non explicit dual intent visas like the TN Visa for Canadians and E-3 Visa for Australians ultimately hope their employer sponsor company for their non-immigrant visa will be happy to sponsor them for a Green Card one day under EB-1, EB-2 or EB-3.

Now many never get the chance because their employer companies don’t want the additional expense and time to do this and/or the actual foreign sponsor doesn’t want to endure the long wait times and static career growth as a result of this process. Recently we looked at where Green Card & Visa Sponsored non-immigrant foreigners reside around the US to help people get a better idea of where the opportunities and competition lies.

Today we will look at both the companies that are sponsoring the greatest number of Green Card Applications by their Labor Certification data as well as what countries dominate the demographics of these foreign applicants. This data also comes from the US Department of Labor and is for the 2011 Immigration year.

Microsoft is by far and away the greatest sponsor of Green Card Applications with 39% of the Top 25 companies total and 6% of all applications. So maybe getting a job in Redmond, WA near Seattle is a great idea! This list is dominated by Technology and Finance companies and the positions that most of these applications tend to be for are Engineers in Computer Science with a few Accounting/Consulting type roles as well.

Company PERM Applications
Microsoft 3,531
Cognizant 1,942
Cisco 604
Intel 345
Google 343
Qualcomm 343
Texas Instruments 227
Amazon 202
Bloomberg 192
Bank of America 182
IBM 180
Hewlett Packard 178
Juniper Networks 144
VMWare 143
Broadcom 135
JP Morgan & Chase 133
Deloitte Consulting 125
Ericsson 123
Apple 120
NetApp 115
Pricewaterhousecoopers 115
Credit Suisse 109
Mastech 100
InfoSys 97
Oracle 96

Indian nationals makes up over 50% of all Green Card Applicant sponsors with an average annual salary of  above 90K. This is the second highest among the other Top 5 countries being China, South Korea, Canada and Philippines. Canadian sponsored permanent residents average salary for the sponsored roles tops 100K which is possibly not surprising given their long standing relationship and proximity to the US and thus their citizens being on the most equal footing with US Citizens of any foreigner when applying for roles and negotiating salary.

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Green Card Lottery Results Available (DV-2014)

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It’s that time of year again where approximately 55,000 lucky foreigners from around the world find out whether they indeed are a winner of the the DV-2014 Lottery, otherwise know as the Diversity Visa or Green Card Lottery.

So if you go to the State Department site you and you enter your confirmation number from last year’s lottery entry that you would have seen online you can see if you are a winner! For the first time the site has got more friendly and in case you have forgotten your confirmation number you can still find if you have won by entering a lot of personal authentication details about yourself that you would have inputted in last year’s online form including Full Name, Date of Birth, Email, etc.

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This year’s announcement could very well be monumental  and historic as it may well be the last Green Card Lottery ever. Current US Immigration Reform legislation being debated in the US Congress proposed to eliminate the Green Card lottery and 5 years following replace it with a Merit based visa system with a larger cap but more fair to actual ability of the applicant and thus value to the US economy and society. Now Immigration Reform may fail to pass and the current initial legislation is sure to be modified, however there is little strong support on either side of politics for the Green Card Lottery so chances are no matter what the reform bill is in the end, the Green Card Lottery elimination will be a part of it. Therefore the only way the Green Card Lottery remains in place is if this legislation is delayed past October 2013 when DV-2015 is scheduled to run or if no Immigration reform is past at all.

Remember if you are a Green Card Lottery winner the official notification will still come in the mail to the address you put in the online application form and that will give you the official instructions as to what you must do in terms of US Consulate interviews, organizing documents, etc.

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