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to obtaining a green card through employment is to obtain labor
certification from the Department of Labor. PERM is the Program
Electronic Review Management system developed by the Department of
Labor to replace the previously Labor Certification program and
became effective on March 28, 2005. To obtain an approved Labor
Certification, the employer must prove that they were unsuccessful
in recruiting a qualified U.S. worker for a certain position. |
Aliens of extraordinary
ability in the sciences, arts, education, business, or athletics
qualify for the EB-1A category for a green card application. This
category is available to those individuals who have risen to the
small percentage at the very top of his or her field and can
demonstrate sustained national or international acclaim and
recognition. |
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Outstanding professors or researchers quality for the EB-1B category
for a green card application. This category is for professors and
researchers who are recognized internationally as outstanding in his
or her academic field. In order to quality, you must show at two of the
following: major prizes or awards in the field, membership in
associations who require outstanding achievements, published
material written by others about your research, judged of the work
of others, contributed original work to the field, authored
scholarly articles or publications. |
Multinational executives or managers qualify for the EB-1C category
if it can be shown that the person have been employed for at one
year in a managerial or executive capacity in the past three years
by an overseas affiliate, parent, subsidiary, or branch of the U.S.
employer, is coming to the U.S. in a managerial or executive
capacity, and the U.S. employer have been doing business in the U.S.
for at least one year. |
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| A National
Interest Waiver (NIW) is an EB-2 second employment category
preference. NIW requires that the job offer a labor certification
usually required be waived to advance the national interest. In
order to qualify for a National Interest Waiver the applicant must
seek work in an area of substantial intrinsic merit and the work
must benefit the nation as a whole. The applicant must demonstrate
that the work will benefit the U.S. in a manner so great as to
outweigh the national interest inherent in the labor certification
process. |
A religious worker is someone
who for the past two years, has been a member of a religious
denomination which is a bona fide nonprofit religious organization
in the U.S and who has worked as a minister of that denomination,
worked in a professional capacity in a religious vocation or
occupation for that organization or worked in a religious vocation
or occupation for the organization or its nonprofit affiliate, for
the past 2 years. |
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| The registered nurse must be
employed with a qualified employer, have two years experience or
training, hold a RN license if in the U.S., pass the TOEFL
examination, and obtain a visa screen certificate from the
Commission on Graduates of Foreign Nurses (CGFNS) agency. Nurses do
not need to go through the labor certification process, instead a
Form I-140 Immigrant Petition for Alien Worker may be directly
submitted. |
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