Permanent Employment Visas

Immigrant Visa

Andrade Legal assists many foreign nationals in applying for employment-based immigrant visas, which enable them to live and work on a permanent basis in the United States.

Most of these visa classifications require that an employer file an immigrant visa petition on the worker’s behalf.

Some also require certification from the U.S. Department of Labor that there are no available, qualified and willing U.S. workers to fill the position and that hiring a foreign worker won’t negatively affect the wages and working conditions of U.S. workers in similar positions.

For more information on the Labor Certification process, please seehttp://www.foreignlaborcert.doleta.gov/perm_detail.cfm 

Below are the five employment-based immigrant visa categories:

Visa Type  Description 
 

 

EB-1
  • Persons of extraordinary ability in the sciences, arts, education, business, or athletics
  • Outstanding professors or researchers
  • Multinational executives and managers
 

EB-2
  • Professionals holding advanced degrees
  • Persons with exceptional ability in the arts, sciences, or business
 

 

EB-3
  • Professionals
  • Skilled workers
  • Other workers
 

 

EB-4

  

“Special immigrants,” including certain religious workers, employees of U.S. foreign service posts, retired employees of international organizations, minors who are wards of U.S. courts in the United States, and other classes of individuals

 
 

 

EB-5

  

Business investors who invest $1 million or $500,000 (in targeted employment areas) in a new commercial enterprise that employs at least 10 full-time U.S. workers