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Lawful Permanent Residency (Green Card)
People
can get green cards in a variety of ways.
Some involve family-filed petitions, others involve
employer-filed petitions, and others involve public policy
kinds of applications (asylum, etc.). Caltech sponsorship is
only available when the application is based on one’s
professional employment at Caltech.
The following are characteristics of Caltech-based
petitions:
 Appropriate
for long-term hires, particularly tenure-track hires
Processing
takes at least three years, so it is necessary to bring the
individual into the United States in an appropriate
non-immigrant status in the interim (usually H-1B or O-1)
Requires
an Institute petition to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and to the Department of Labor
in some cases
Requires
extensive documentation
Must
articulate with Institute hiring policies for long-term and/or
tenure-track hires, particularly search procedures
Family
members get green cards when the sponsored individual gets his
or her green card. This
is not the same as a family-filed petition.
Caltech
Guidelines for Sponsoring Lawful Permanent Residency
Caltech has developed more detailed guidelines for sponsoring
lawful permanent residency.
Permanent Residency
The
DHS web site has general information on how to become a
lawful permanent resident.
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