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I’m from India, planning to move to US on L1 as an IC. I want to get green card in 3-5 years or get out of the country. If I get green card, I want to look at bringing my parents permanently to US.

As someone without any research papers, any significant industry presence, how difficult will it be to get an EB1 green card if I start chipping at requirements now?

How doable is getting parents within next 5-7 years?

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You can't sponsor your parents until you are a U.S. citizen and you must be a green card holder for 5 years (unless you are married to a U.S. citizen) before you can apply for citizenship. Will you be managing any employees in your position in the U.S.? Are you managing any employees now?

No, I’m not a manager and won’t be managing any employees.

It's going to be a long process to a green card then. The only reasonably fast path is the EB1A extraordinary ability path and the standard is very high and difficult and subjective/uncertain.

Thank you for your responses, appreciate you taking the time.

Hi Peter, thanks for doing this AMA!

I am from India as well, and I am currently a startup co-founder for a self-funded startup that currently employs about 5 American Citizens full time. My other co-founder is with me on the idea of continuing the self-funding situation and acquire more customers which will increase our revenue.

I am considering applying for EB-1 but wondering what my changes would be to get a GC through that path, would you rather advise me to wait a bit more until we hit 10 American Citizen workers in our company?

Unless employees in your company are reporting to you in India, your hopes of getting into an EB1 category is close to zero. You need to prove that you've managed EMPLOYEES of your company in multiple countries other than the US.

Correct. Unless you are super senior within an organization, you must be managing employees now and managing employees in the U.S. to have a chance at an EB1C green card.

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