Employment-Based Immigration

Our Employment law attorneys assist employers with recruitment and labor certification issues, and help employees obtain work visas and green cards. We file all necessary petitions and documentation, and we counsel employers and workers on immigration issues and on hiring and transferring foreign workers.

Employment-based immigration preference categories are based on foreign workers’ occupations, training and skills. The first category includes aliens of extraordinary ability, outstanding researchers and professors, and multinational executives and managers. Immigrants in this category do not require labor certification in order to receive visas.

The second category includes professionals with advanced degrees and aliens of exceptional ability in science, art, or business; and the third category includes professionals with bachelors’ degrees, skilled workers with a minimum of two years of training, and unskilled workers. These immigrants must have a job offer, and must obtain labor certification demonstrating a need for foreign recruitment for the proposed position because of too few qualified U.S. workers. The fourth and fifth categories include “special immigrants” and religious workers, and alien entrepreneurs.