Permanent Worker

For employment-based immigrant visas, a U.S. employer must sponsor a certain skilled worker who will be hired into permanent jobs. The U.S. immigration law puts the employment-based immigrant visas in five categories, based on whether its an investment or a permanent job and the prospective employee’s training/experience. Additionally, there are a number of special immigrant categories where a prospective immigrant may be able to sponsor himself or herself.

For official and current information regarding Employment-based immigrant visas, please reference the USCIS’ webpage on the topic.

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The permanent worker visa preference (Employment-based Immigrant Visa) categories include the following:

First Preference

EB-1

This preference is reserved for persons of extraordinary ability in the sciences, arts, education, business, or athletics; outstanding professors or researchers; and multinational executives and managers

Second Preference

EB-2

This preference is reserved for persons who are members of the professions holding advanced degrees or for persons with exceptional ability in the arts, sciences, or business

Third Prefernce

EB-3

This preference is reserved for professionals, skilled workers, and other workers

Fourth Preference

EB-4

This preference is reserved for “special immigrants,” which includes certain religious workers, employees of U.S. foreign service posts, retired employees of international organizations, alien minors who are wards of courts in the United States, and other classes of aliens

Fifth Preference

EB-5

This preference is reserved for investors and entrepreneurs investing a minimum of $1 million or, in a targeted employment area, a minimum of $500,000 in an enterprise that will create or preserve at least 10 full-time jobs for qualifying U.S. workers within two years.