You may be eligible for this immigrant visa preference category if you are a skilled worker, professional, or other worker.

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Skilled Workers

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• You must be able to demonstrate at least 2 years of job experience or training

• You must be performing work for which qualified workers are not available in the United States

• Labor certification and a permanent, full-time job offer required.

 

Professionals

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• You must be able to demonstrate that you possess a U.S. baccalaureate degree or foreign degree equivalent, and that a baccalaureate degree is the normal requirement for entry into the occupation

• You must be performing work for which qualified workers are not available in the United States

• Education and experience may not be substituted for a baccalaureate degree

• Labor certification and a permanent, full-time job offer required.

 

Unskilled Workers (Other Workers)

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• You must be capable, at the time the petition is filed on your behalf, of performing unskilled labor (requiring less than 2 years training or experience), that is not of a temporary or seasonal nature, for which qualified workers

• Labor certification and a permanent, full-time job offer required.