EMPLOYMENT-BASED GREEN CARD
Our office has worked with individuals, corporations, small start-ups and premier hospitals to retain talented professionals in the fields of marketing, computer science, business, research, teaching, and medicine, among many others. To obtain an employment based green card your employer must be willing to sponsor you. Every fiscal year (October 1st-September 30th), approximately 140,000 employment-based immigrant visas are made available to qualified applicants under the provisions of U.S. immigration law.
Employment-based immigrant visas are divided into 5 preference categories. Depending on your preference category, you may require a labor certification from the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), and then you will need to file a immigrant visa petition with United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).
Once your immigrant visa petition is approved by USCIS, you can apply for your green card through the Adjustment of Status process if you are in the United States. If you are outside the United States, USCIS will send your petition to the National Visa Center for consular processing.
The filing date of the immigrant visa petition becomes your priority date. Green cards cannot be issued until the applicant’s priority date is current. The monthly visa bulletin released by the Department of State needs to be monitored for the latest priority dates.