Q: I need advice to help a dear friend, who is like a granddaughter to me, to immigrate to USA from Albania, (citizenship)?
I was sponsoring her in nursing school and now she has graduated and has her RN degree. She will be age 22 on Nov. 13, 2020. I own my home and have a room all ready for her, here in Tucson.
A: There is no friend category that you can sponsor someone to get a green card from another country. Your friend can get a green card either by marriage to an American citizen or marriage to a green card holder. She can get a green card by getting sponsored for a job, but that job must be tied to the field that she studied in college. She can get an investor visa if she puts up hundreds of thousands of dollars into a business and can show that the business is generating a profit to support herself and any of her dependence. Other than that it’s going to be very hard to get permanent residency into the country.
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