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Employment-Based Visa.
There are five different categories
of employment based USA visas that are synonymous with
USA permanent residence (acquisition of a green card).
These are referred to as the EB preference system. The
world wide limit on employment based USA visas is
140,000 plus unused family sponsored preference
visas from the previous year. These visas allow their
beneficiaries to live and work in the USA on a permanent
basis
There is descending order of petitions
allowed for each category, thus, the EB-1 has priority
in regards to how many petitions are allowed for this
for EB visas, then the second preference and so on and
so forth.
The first employment based preference
type of US visa is available to persons of extraordinary
ability, (EB-1) outstanding professors and researchers
and certain executives and mangers of multinational
organizations.
The second preference type known as
the EB-2 visa category allows for the US immigration
of foreign nationals with advanced degrees and those
with exceptional ability whose employment in the USA
would be in the national interest of the country
The third preference is classified
as the EB-3 category. This includes skilled workers,
professionals and other workers.
There are adequate visa numbers projected
in the foreseeable future for skilled workers and professionals.
However, there are only 10,000 visas allowed world wide
each year for foreign nationals who are categorized
as other workers. This is further being reduced to 5,000
applications worldwide. Thus, there is a definite advantage
to being classified as a skilled worker/professional
or a different EB category altogether.
A labor certification or schedule
A petition is required for all EB-3 petitions.
An immigrant petition form (form I-140) must also be
filed with documents proving the employer and beneficiary
satisfy the regulatory regulations.
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