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Employment-Based Green Cards

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Getting a Green Card Via Employment

An immigrant is a foreign national who has been authorized to live and work permanently in the United States. To become an immigrant based on having a permanent employment opportunity in the United States, or an employer that wants to sponsor someone for lawful permanent residency based on permanent employment in the United States, you must go through a multi-step process. We handle these cases all the time.

Green Card Eligibility

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There are five categories for granting permanent residence to foreign nationals based on employment skills.

EB-1 Priority workers
Aliens with extraordinary ability are those with “extraordinary ability in the sciences, arts, education, business, or athletics which has been demonstrated by sustained national or international acclaim and whose achievements have been recognized in the field through extensive documentation.” You must be one of “that small percentage who have risen to the very top of the field of endeavor,” to be granted this classification.

EB-2 Professionals with advanced degrees or persons with exceptional ability
This includes aliens who are “members of the professions holding advanced degrees or their equivalent” and aliens “who because of their exceptional ability in the sciences, arts, or business will substantially benefit the national economy, cultural, or educational interests or welfare of the United States.”

EB-3 Skilled or professional workers
To qualify as an EB-4 you must be a:
• Foreign national professionals with bachelor's degrees (not qualifying for a higher preference category)
• Foreign national skilled workers (minimum two years training and experience)
• Foreign national unskilled workers

EB-4 Special Immigrants
To qualify as an EB-4 special immigrant religious worker, you must be a member of a religious denomination that has a non-profit religious organization in the United States. You must have been a member of this religious denomination for at least two years before applying for admission to the United States.

EB-5 Immigrant Investors
Permanent resident status based on EB-5 eligibility is available to investors, either alone or coming with their spouse and unmarried children. Eligible aliens are those who have invested — or are actively in the process of investing — the required amount of capital into a new commercial enterprise that they have established. They must further demonstrate that this investment will benefit the United States economy and create the requisite number of full-time jobs for qualified persons within the United States.

To learn more about EB-5 Immigrant Investors PRESS HERE.

 

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Millar and Hayes is committed to answering your questions about business immigration, investors, family-based immigration, citizenship, and inadmissibility legal issues. We'll gladly discuss your case with you at your convenience. Contact us today to schedule an appointment.

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