text: in some countries if you buy home,land,apartment,you can get a residence visa,what about us?   in the usa, you can buy a mansion, but it will not get you papers. you can, however, start a business that either creates 10 full time jobs for us workers or is an investment of 1 million dollars and that will get you a chance at applying for the green card. look it up under "investors visas" at www.uscis.gov best to get an immigration lawyer who specializes in this work to help. it snot that easy