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Immigration Attorney
Carl Shusterman
Understanding the Visa Bulletin:
Employment-Based Categories
EB Preference Categories
EB-1 – Priority Workers
EB-2 – Advanced Degrees
EB-3 – Professionals,
Skilled/Unskilled
Workers
EB-4 – Religious Workers,
et al
Doing The Numbers
140,000 Persons Per Year
Principal & Derivative
Beneficiaries
7% Per-Country Limitation
Alternate Chargeability
Waiting Times: Looking Forward
Monthly Visa Bulletin –
Looks Backwards
Priority Dates – PERM and
I-140
EB-3 India – Frozen in Time
Changing Categories:
Employment-Based
EB-3 to EB-2 (to EB-1)
Retention of Priority Date
New Petition (and PERM)
Required
Immigration Reform Bill
Would…
Eliminate EB Per-Country
Quotas
Exempt Many Persons from
Quotas
Recapture Unused Green
Cards
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