Thread: Russian couple moving to the USA - any advise from others that did it?

A question, how did they get a green card and a job without even visiting the USA?
Are they some kind of very rare specialists or artists, or how was this arranged?

Normally it takes 7-10 years to get a green card, from what I understand, and it is required that you are IN the US practically uninterrupted for this period.

Originally Posted by Hanna

A question, how did they get a green card and a job without even visiting the USA?
Are they some kind of very rare specialists or artists, or how was this arranged?

Normally it takes 7-10 years to get a green card, from what I understand, and it is required that you are IN the US practically uninterrupted for this period.

APPLY FOR USA GREEN CARD LOTTERY

I can't possibly believe you didn't know of the lottery.

Originally Posted by Eric C.

APPLY FOR USA GREEN CARD LOTTERY

I can't possibly believe you didn't know of the lottery.

Obviously I know of it, since ads for it are running in the international editions of certain American magazines... But a lottery isn't known for having odds that favour the player, and most of the odds are for scams. I know a few people who got Green Cards in the US, and they got it through many years of working and playing by the rules... or marriage.

"I can't possibly believe" that you don't know that... If that lottery had even remotely decent odds, then half of the third world, and Mexico, just for starters, would already be in the USA...

But the question was for Scott, lets hear what he says.

I don't think the odds are any better than the Euromillions lottery.... Probably worse.

Originally Posted by Hanna

A question, how did they get a green card and a job without even visiting the USA?

They probably Ukrainians