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If you work in science, technology, engineering or math (STEM), you may be wondering if the high demand for people in the STEM fields could help you immigrate to the United States. It definitely can. Depending on your exact qualifications, you may qualify for one or...
The United States government is making an effort to remove barriers to legal immigration, especially employment-based immigration by highly desirable candidates. Therefore, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has made it easier for some STEM...
If you would like to live and work in the United States permanently, there are a lot of options. Here, we will talk about the preference-based system for employment-based (EB) visas. These are far from the only visas available that offer the chance to work in the U.S....
If you have a full-time job offer as a minister, in a religious vocation, or in a religious occupation in the U.S., you may qualify for an EB-4 visa for Special Immigrant Religious Workers. This is an immigrant visa, meaning that you can apply later on for a green...
If your spouse is working in the United States on an H-1B visa, you may already know that you are eligible for an H-4 visa, which comes with a work permit. That may be changing. The Trump administration has announced a plan to end the H-4 visa's work permit.The move...
Are you a highly skilled or educated person who wants to study or work in the United States? Although recent developments may indicate that America is less than welcoming toward immigrants, the truth is that the U.S. welcomes more immigrants overall than any other...
For 10 years, the U.S. military recruited immigrants with critical language skills to serve in exchange for a chance to become U.S. citizens. In 2016, however, the Trump administration put that program on hold, concerned about inadequate vetting and security threats....
If you would like to come to the United States for work, you need an employment-based visa. There are two classifications of employment-based visas: temporary and permanent. Each type has many visas to choose from, but you may only qualify for specific ones.Many U.S....
If you want to live and work permanently in the United States, you may qualify for a visa based on your education or work history. EB-3 visas are available for baccalaureate professionals, skilled workers and even unskilled workers when qualified workers are not...
EB-2 visas are for qualifying individuals who wish to immigrate permanently to the United States for reasons of employment. These are second-preference immigrant visas, meaning that the visas only become available once all EB-1 visas are awarded. In a previous post,...
