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Highlights: Employment-Based visa categories to work in USA
- Immigrants can choose the best from EB1 to EB5 to get Green Card, through an employment-based preference category
- 140,000 visas are available each fiscal for noncitizens, spouses, and children
- Noncitizens in the USA have to file Form I-485 while living outside the USA should submit an online Visa Application with Form DS-260
- 5 Employment-based immigrant visa preference categories include: EB-1, EB-2, EB-3, EB-4, and EB-5
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Why Employment Based visas to work in USA?
An Employment Based visa allows a foreign national to travel to the United States in order to live and work in the country for a specified amount of time.
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5 Employment-based immigrant visa preference categories
| Types of Employment Based Visas | Preference | Labour Certification Requirement | Family of EB-1 Visa Holders |
| EB-1 | Extraordinary qualities in the sciences, arts, education, business, or athletics; outstanding professors or researchers; and multinational executives and managers | No | Spouse and unmarried children under the age of 21 may be eligible to apply for admission to the United States in E-14 or E-15 |
| EB-2 | Having advanced degrees or for persons with exceptional ability in the arts, sciences, or business | Yes | Spouse and unmarried children under the age of 21 may be eligible to apply for admission to the United States in E-21 and E-22 immigrant status |
| EB-3 | Professionals, skilled workers, and other workers | Yes | E-34 (spouse of a skilled worker’ or ‘professional’) or EW-4 (spouse of an 'other worker’), and E-35 (child of a skilled worker or professional) or EW-5 (child of other worker) |
| EB-4 | ‘Special immigrants’, which includes certain religious workers, employees of US foreign service posts, retired employees of international organisations | No | Few EB-4 classifications allow your spouse and unmarried children under the age of 21 to be admitted to the United States |
| EB-5 | Business investors who invest $1.5 million or $800,000 | No | NA |
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