There was a lot of craze to get the Green Card Permanent Resident status which allows the card holder to work and live for his life in the United States of America and live the great American dream that every one in the world is dreaming about. The easiest way to get the Green Card Permanent Resident status is getting married with a United States Citizen or if you are a relative to the US citizen, then it is easy to get the green card and enjoy their lives in the US. This is a form of family based immigration and there are also options to Green Card Permanent Resident status through employment based conditions. The first preference of giving green card is given to excellent professors and researchers and also employees and professionals with great capabilities. Mostly managers and executives in the multi national companies get this opportunity of the green card. The second preference is given to highly qualified professionals with post graduate degree and preference is also given to academicians in this case. Preferences to Green Card Permanent Resident status is also given to medical practitioners, nurses and to both skilled and unskilled workers as a third preference following certain criteria. The United States government also runs a Green Card Permanent Resident status lottery and the persons winning the lottery will get the green card. America welcomes the entrepreneurs willing to invest more than 5 million dollars and benefiting the US economy by creating a minimum of 5 US full time jobs to offer green cards. These entrepreneurs will be given the top priority and the green cards will be given to them. The adopted children under the age of 16 are also given Green Card Permanent Resident status and the US government also provides the green cards to the people who have lived in the United States for more than 20 or 30 years and people who have been living in the US from 1972 have been given the green card recently through this scheme. The diplomats of various countries with a A-1 Visa are also granted the Green Card Permanent Resident status and are allowed to stay in the US if they think that their lives are at jeopardy in their home nation. People who also have come to US as a asylum are also offered green cards but now the United States have made the Visa procedures very strict and it is very hard to enter the United States.