I would also highly recommend contracting an immigration lawyer to help with the paperwork and interview.

@Bryant Schur Thank you very much for opening up this thread and help out rookies.I immigrated to the U.S. in November 2015 from Switzerland and started working in March last year.

It's a biography about Samuel Zemurray who went rage to riches as an immigrant becoming the largest fruit trader in the Americas.

Here is a list of a few that I find to be of most value:Population TotalHome ValuesHousehold IncomesPoverty RatePopulation AgeRental Vacancy Rate*Homeowner Vacancy Rate*Educational Attainment Rate (High School/GED & Bachelors)Number of Housing UnitRent to Income Ratio*Rent to Price Ratio*Population on SNAPS (supplemental nutrition assistance program) percentageProperty Tax Rate*Median Age of BuildingsNumber of Structures by Units (SFR, Duplex, Triplex, Quadplex, etc...)Median Rents by Number of BedroomsPopulation Change (Births, Deaths, In-Migrations, Immigrants)*note that some of the metrics are composites that are computed by comparing two or more variables from the ACSA number of the variables above can also be broken up into cohorts, which will give you even more insight into how an area is doing.

I did verify certain things before agreeing, example a couple with low credit were recent immigrants to the country, no bad marks but still building up their credit.

My parents are immigrants and I want to live up to the idea of the American Dream.

Before it had a name - and most people don't even know it has a name - it was the way immigrants and other self-made wealthy individuals got rich through real estate, albeit usually leaving out the "refinance" part.

I will not pretend this was a pure aberration of capricious fate, that there were zero indications beforehand that racist white trash that hates Jews, black people, and immigrants has a widespread presence in my area.

Rogers' set carpenters, an immigrant to this country who took his self-taught skills and built a portfolio worth millions in my area.

bought a distressed triplex full of immigrant tenants in a D class neighborhood with very little understanding of the people ,the area or the property... did I mention I had literally no reserves at all in case something went wrong .