Immigration Services

Immigration Services

• H-1B: This includes specialty occupations (e.g., architecture, engineering, medicine, accounting); professionals from Chile and Singapore under the Free Trade Agreement; specialty occupations related to the Department of Defense Cooperative Research and Developments projects; and, fashion models of distinguished merit and ability.
• H-2A and H-2B: Temporary or seasonal agricultural and non-agricultural workers.
• L: This visa is designed for multinational companies to transfer an executive or managerial employee, or one with specialized knowledge, from its office abroad to a US office. It also allows the transfer of the employee in order to open the US business.
• O: Individuals with extraordinary ability in the sciences, arts, education, business, athletics, or motion picture or TV production.
• P: Athletes, individual performers, and members of an entertainment group that do not meet the extraordinary ability requirement to qualify for an O visa.
• R: Religious workers.
• TN: Temporary professionals from Canada and Mexico that qualify under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

• First Preference (EB-1): Individuals of extraordinary ability in the sciences, arts, education, business, or athletics; outstanding professors or researchers; and, multinational executives and managers.
• Second Preference (EB-2): Individuals who are members of the professions holding advanced degrees and individuals with exceptional ability in the arts, sciences, or business. This category requires the filing of a Labor Certification, unless a national interest waiver is obtained.
• Third Preference (EB-3): Includes professionals, skilled workers, and other workers. This category requires the filing of a Labor Certification, however there is no waiver option available.

INVESTOR VISAS

• Treaty Trader (E1): Nationals of a treaty country (a country with which the United States maintains a treaty of commerce and navigation) admitted to the United States solely to engage in international trade on his or her own behalf. Certain employees of such a person or of a qualifying organization may also be eligible for this classification.
• Treaty Investor (E2): Nationals of a treaty country (a country with which the United States maintains a treaty of commerce and navigation) admitted to the United States to invest a substantial amount of capital in a U.S. business. Certain employees of such a person or of a qualifying organization may also be eligible for this classification.

• Fifth Preference (EB-5): This category is for individuals that will be investing in the US and creating jobs. It provides for a 2 year conditional residence, followed by permanent residence once the conditions have been removed.

FAMILY BASED PERMANENT, IMMIGRANT VISAS

• Immediate Relatives of US Citizens: Spouses, Parents, and Children
• First Preference: Unmarried, adult sons and daughters of US citizens
• Second Preference: Spouses, unmarried children, and unmarried adult sons and daughters of Permanent Residents
• Third Preference: Married sons and daughters of US citizens
• Fourth Preference: Siblings of US citizens