Work-Based Immigration

Our experienced team works with employers and employees seeking work-based immigration to the United States. The United States has five categories of employment-based immigrant visas seeking to immigrate based on their job skills. The five categories include:

First Preference EB-1 visas for noncitizens of extraordinary ability, outstanding professors or researchers, or certain multinational executives or managers

• Second Preference EB-2 visas for members of professions holding advanced degrees or their equivalents, or people of exceptional ability
• Third Preference EB-3 visas for skilled workers, professionals, or other workers performing unskilled labor requiring less than two years training or experience and not of a temporary or seasonal nature
• Fourth Preference EB-4 visas for special immigrants who are either religious workers, Special Immigrant Juveniles, certain types of broadcasters, certain types of retired officers, or employees of a G-4 international organization or North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)-6 civilian employees and their family members, certain employees of the United States government who are abroad and their family members, members of the United States armed forces, Panama Canal company or Canal Zone government employees, certain physicians licensed and practicing medicine in a state as of January 9, 1978, Afghan or Iraqi translators or interpreters, Iraqis who were employed by or on behalf of the United States government, and Afghans who were employed by the United States government or International Security Assistance Force (ISAF)
• The EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program allows investors (and their spouses and unmarried children under 21) to apply for Green Cards (permanent residence) if they make necessary investments in commercial enterprises in the United States and have plans to create or preserve 10 permanent full-time jobs for qualified American workers