I’m currently on H1B but my spouse has a green card. Getting marriage-based green card would be much more efficient than waiting for employment-based green card for my nationality. Do employers typically help the paperwork for marriage-based green card? If I hire a lawyer myself, it would cost more than $7K, so I’d rather to get employer’s help. I’m starting a new role with Walmart. Any ideas if they can help with this? TC: $300K
Is it worth asking the immigration team in Walmart. I know some companies do that. I am sure we do it at Wayfair and I didn't ask, ended up paying out of Pocket.
You don't need a lawyer for a marriage based green card, you can do it yourself and a lawyer definitely wouldn't expedite the process, if anything sometimes they slow it down. There are companies like Boundless that help with the paperwork, if you don't want to do it yourself. Their website has a lot of information, but there are many other sources out there. It's not hard, just tedious. You'll spend some money sending documents to the government (like 1200 here, 2000 there, with many months of wait between them), but you don't need to spend more on a lawyer.
Do it yourself. And why would your employer be interested in doing this for you? This is a personal matter.
Some companies will reimburse this
You should not need to hire an attorney for a marriage-based green card. My husband became eligible when he married me and he did all the paperwork himself.
Hey, I currently have one in process with Ogletree at Meta. Message me if you need more info. And yeah, you don’t really need to, but if someone does all that paperwork for you at no cost, I’d rather take that route. Especially if it’s trained immigration attorneys.
Hi, was it all paid for by meta?
As transactional as it sounds, companies apply to GC to improve employee retention numbers (people are way less likely to jump ship when their GC is in process). Marriage based GC doesn’t seem to improve retention much so it would be a low possibility of them helping. But it never hurts to ask HR