Employment Based Visa
One of the ways of becoming a Permanent Residence of the United States
is through employment in the United States. This is generally called “Employment
Based Immigration.” There are five categories of employment immigration
visa.
• The first category is for “priority workers”. The first Category is divided in to three groups. First group includes people with Extraordinary Abilities. Second is for Outstanding Researches and Professors, and the third group is for Managers and Executives of International Transferred Companies.
First Group: Applicants with extraordinary ability in field of science, arts, business, athletics, and education fall into this category. However, the ability must be demonstrated through valid documents. The applicant does not need a specific job offer in order to fall into this category.
Second group: This group is for the outstanding researches and professors.
One of the requirements for this group is internationally stupendous recognition
in a specific academic field. The applicant also needs minimum of three
years of teaching or researching in the field. In addition, the alien
must have at least one of the offers: offer of a tenured teaching position
or comparable research position, or offer of a similar research position
with a private employer if the employer has at least three researches
and has documented accomplishment in the field of research, or offer of
a research position having no fixed term and employee has an exception
of permanent employment. The employer who is offering the job must file
the petition.
Third Group: Managers and Executive of Intra-Company Transfers: To be
included in this group of the first category, the applicant must have
at least one year in the preceding three employed by the overseas subsidiary,
affiliate or a branch of the U.S. employer. Also, the alien must come
to the United States to wok as a manager or executive. The person must
be either a manager of organization, departments, and components, or supervisor
of other supervisory, managerial, or professional personals, or authority
to make personal decisions, or exercise of discretion over a operation
or function.
• The second category covers two groups of applicants; one with
advanced-degree professionals and the other one is aliens with exceptional
ability in science, business or arts. In order to be belong to the group
of advanced-degree professionals, there are some requirements to meet.
Also, for the applicant of exceptional ability possession of degree or
certificate may not be enough to demonstrate the ability.
• The third category of employment-based visa includes the aliens with offers of employment in the United States. There are three groups in this category: professionals with bachelor’s degree, skilled workers, and other workers.
The first group is the professionals who have bachelor’s degree. The applicant must have a U.S. bachelor degree or foreign equivalent degree that is a member of the profession. Also, the occupation must require minimum of bachelor’s degree in order to be eligible to do the task.
The second group is applicants who have the required skills for labor, which means minimum of two years of experience. This group is currently available to physical and occupational therapist, speech-language pathologist, medical technologist and technicians, nurses, and physician assistance.
The last group in this category is applicants who have the ability to perform unskilled tasks. Unskilled labor means a labor that requires less than two years of experience or training in the occupations.
Immediate family members (spouse and unmarried children under age of
21) can immigrate with the employment-based visa.
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