Employment Based Petitions

Employment Based First Preference (EB-1)

EB-1 is Suitable For:

  • Foreign nationals who have received national or international acclaim for outstanding achievements in Arts, Sciences, Education, Business or Athletics
  • Outstanding professors and researchers who have at least three years experience in teaching or research in their field and received international recognition for their work
  • Executives of multinational companies managing an organization or a major function or division of an organization
  • Managers of multinational companies supervising the work of other supervisory, professional or managerial employees
  • Managers who manage an essential function, department or subdivision
  • Multinational companies to sponsor the Green Card application for their executives and managers
  • U.S. Universities to sponsor the Green Card application for foreign national professors and researchers with outstanding abilities
  • Immediate family members of EB-1 Green Card applicants

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Employment Based Second Preference (EB-2)

EB-2 is Suitable For:

  • Foreign professionals with an advanced university degrees (masters degree or higher) and with a job offer from a U.S. company
  • Foreign nationals with exceptional ability in the sciences, business or arts and with a job offer from a U.S. company
  • U.S. companies to sponsor the Green Card application for foreign professionals holding advanced university degrees, or persons with exceptional ability in the sciences, business, or arts
  • Universities to sponsor the Green Card application for foreign national professors and researchers of exceptional ability
  • Immediate family members of EB-2 Green Card applicants

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Employment Based Third Preference (EB-3)

EB-3 is Suitable For:

  • Professionals with a U.S. bachelor’s or foreign equivalent degree and with a job offer from a U.S. company
  • Skilled workers with at least two years of training or experience and with a job offer from a U.S. company
  • Unskilled workers with less than two years training or experience and with a job offer from a U.S. company
  • U.S. companies to sponsor the Green Card application for professional, skilled or unskilled foreign nationals
  • Immediate family members of EB-3 Green Card applicants

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Employment Based Fifth Preference (EB-5)

Permanent Residence through Investment. EB-5 Category is Suitable For:

  • Foreign entrepreneurs who invest $500,000 in a commercial enterprise in a targeted employment area that will benefit the U.S. economy and create at least 10 full-time U.S. jobs
  • Foreign entrepreneurs who invest $1,000,000 in a commercial enterprise that will benefit the U.S. economy and create at least 10 full-time U.S. jobs
  • Immediate family members of EB-5 foreign entrepreneur visa applicants

The Immigration Act of 1990 created the Immigration Investor Program (or EB-5) as the fifth preference category for employment-based immigration applications. This was the first time a category specifically facilitated the admission of investors as lawful permanent residents and currently remains the only such category to do so. EB-5 is available to those individuals who have invested, or are in the process of investing at least $1 million in a commercial enterprise employing at least 10 full-time U.S. workers. Individuals who invest in a targeted employment area only need to invest a minimum of $500,000.
The purpose of the EB-5 is to stimulate job-creating investment by offering immigrants the benefits of permanent residency in the United States.
Approximately 10,000 visa numbers are allocated annually to EB-5 investors.

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Green Card Renewal / Replacement

Replace or Renew Green Card is Suitable For:

  • Permanent Residents who were issued a Green Card valid for ten years, and that card has either expired or will expire within the next six months
  • Permanent Residents whose previous card was lost, stolen, mutilated, or destroyed
  • Foreign nationals who have never received the previous Green Card that was issued by the USCIS
  • Permanent Residents who were issued Green Cards before 14 years of age and have reached their 14th birthday
  • Permanent Residents who have been commuters and are now taking up actual residence in the U.S.
  • Permanent Residents residing in the U.S. and are now taking up commuter status
  • Permanent Residents whose Green Cards contain incorrect data
  • Permanent Residents whose name or other biographic information on the card has been legally changed since receiving the card last time
  • Foreign nationals whose status has been automatically converted to permanent resident status (including special agricultural workers)
  • Permanent Residents with previous versions of Green Card ( Example: USCIS Form AR-3, Form AR-103, or Form I-151) to replace it with the current permanent resident card

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Removal of Conditions On Residence

Removal of Conditions is suitable for conditional permanent residents who obtained such status through marriage, to remove the conditions on their residence, including:

  • Permanent residents who are still married to the same U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident
  • Widow or widower of a marriage that was entered into in good faith
  • Permanent residents who entered into a marriage in good faith where the marriage was ended through divorce or annulment
  • Permanent residents who entered into a marriage in good faith, but either the spouse or the child were battered or subjected to extreme hardship by the U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident spouse

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Re-Entry Permits / Refugee Travel Documents

Reentry Permit is Suitable For:

  • Lawful permanent residents or conditional permanent residents who wish to remain outside the United States for more than one year
  • Lawful Permanent Residents who want to travel outside the United States, but cannot get a passport from their country of nationality

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