Employment-Based Immigration: An Overview

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Employment-Based Immigration

• An Overview

Immigration Attorney Carl Shusterman
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Numerical Limits

• 7 per Country Limitation

• 140,000 Green Cards per Year

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EB-1 Priority Workers

• Extraordinary Ability
• Outstanding Researchers and Professors
• Multinational Executives and Managers

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EB-2 Advance Degrees/ Exceptional Ability

• PERM (L/C) Generally Required
• National Interest Waivers
• In General
• For Physicians
• Schedule A Physical Therapists

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EB-3 Professionals, Skilled/Unskilled Workers

• PERM (L/C) Generally Required
• Schedule A Registered Nurses

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EB-4 Special Immigrants

• Religious Workers
• Employees of Foreign Consulates
• Retired Employees of International Organizations
• Special Immigration Juveniles
• Others

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EB-5 Investors

• Independent Investors
• Regional Centers
• New Commercial Enterprise
• Amount of Investment
• 10-Full Time Jobs for U.S. Workers

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Backlogs

• EB-2 Especially India and PRC
• EB-3 All Countries
• Length of Backlogs

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How to Speed Up Your Application

• Change Preference Category
• Alternate Chargeability
• CSPA
• Consider Other Ways to Immigrate