Hello everyone!
My name is Frank, I am 28yo and I am from Germany. I want to move to the US and have looked up which options are out there. I am about to finish my master's in management degree right now and will graduate soon. Afterwards I will start working in consulting in Frankfurt.
Afaik there are three ways to get a green card:
- family-based
- employment-based
- DV lottery
Now, I am not eligilbe for a family-based visa, since I do not have any close relatives in the US. I participated in the DV lottery 2022 and the results came in a few days ago and unfortunately I did not get selected. I will apply for 2023 anyway, but now I am interested in how I could get an employment-based green card? I don't want to rely on the very slim chance to win this lottery within the next few years alone.
If I am nost mistaken, I should be eligible for EB-2, because of my master's right? I keep reading everywhere, that a US employer would need to prove that he did not find a US citizen for the job, in order to start the GC process for the foreign national.
My question is: Is it really like that or does it seem stricter than it actually is? Because I am pretty sure, there would be a US citizen for like 99.999% of jobs out there, so how could they ever prove they didn't find anyone?
Can anybody shed some light on this? If I apply for an American company, do they really need to bring all this proof or what is it like? Is it even worth applying for a job in the US? Or should I try find a job at a company in Germany that has offices in the US, to eventually transfer internally at some point?
All advice would be highly appreciated!
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