Employment-Based Immigration

An Overview

Immigration Attorney Carl Shusterman

Numerical Limits

7% per Country Limitation

140,000 Green Cards per Year

EB-1: Priority Workers

Extraordinary Ability

Outstanding Researchers and Professors

Multinational Executives and Managers

EB-2: Advance Degrees/ Exceptional Ability

PERM (L/C) Generally Required

National Interest Waivers

In General For Physicians

Schedule A – Physical Therapists

EB-3: Professionals, Skilled/Unskilled Workers

PERM (L/C) Generally Required

Schedule A – Registered Nurses

EB-4: Special Immigrants

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

EB-5: Investors

Independent Investors Regional Centers New Commercial

Enterprise Amount of Investment 10-Full Time Jobs for

U.S. Workers

Backlogs

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

How to Speed Up Your Application

Change Preference Category

Alternate Chargeability CSPA Consider Other Ways

to Immigrate

How to Speed Up Your Application

Change Preference Category

Alternate Chargeability CSPA Consider Other Ways

to Immigrate