Green Cards

Employment Based Green Card

The Green Card offers foreign nationals the privilege of living and working permanently in the United States. U.S. companies sponsor employment-based Green Cards. Below is a list of the various ways that you may qualify for an employment-based Green Card.

1. Employment First Preference
   
   • Persons with extraordinary ability
   • Outstanding professors and researchers
   • Managers and executives in multinational companies
2. Employment Second Preference
   
   • Professionals with advanced degrees
   • Persons with exceptional ability
   • Exceptional professors and researchers
3. Employment Second Preference with National Interest Waiver (NIW)
   
   • Persons with exceptional ability involved in activities that will substantially benefit the U.S. national interest.
     
   • Advanced degree professionals involved in activities that will substantially benefit the U.S. national interest.
   • Exceptional professors and researchers
4. Employment Third Preference
   
   • Professionals with a U.S. bachelor's or foreign equivalent degree.
     
   • Skilled workers.
   • Unskilled workers.