Employment-Based Immigration: first Preference EB-1

You may be qualified for an employment-based, first-preference visa if you are an alien of extraordinary capability, are an exceptional teacher or scientist, or are a specific international executive or supervisor. Each occupational category has specific requirements that need to be met:

Your petitioning employer needs to be a U.S. company and plan to use you in a supervisory or executive capability. The petitioner needs to have been doing business in the U.S. for at least 1 year, as a legal entity with a qualifying relationship to the entity that utilized you abroad in a managerial or executive capability.

No labor accreditation is required.

* Criteria for Demonstrating Extraordinary Ability

In order to demonstrate you have sustained national or global honor referall.us which your achievements have been recognized in your field of proficiency, you must either include proof of a one-time accomplishment (major internationally-recognized award) or 3 of the 10 listed criteria below (or similar evidence if any of the criteria do not easily use):

– Evidence of receipt of lesser nationally or internationally recognized prizes or awards for excellence

– Evidence of your membership in associations in the field which require impressive accomplishment of their members

– Evidence of published material about you in professional or significant trade publications or other major media

– Evidence that you have actually been asked to judge the work of others, either separately or on a panel

– Evidence of your original clinical, scholarly, artistic, athletic, or business-related contributions of significant significance to the field

– Evidence of your authorship of academic short articles in professional or major trade publications or other significant media

– Evidence that your work has been shown at creative exhibitions or displays

– Evidence of your performance of a leading or vital role in prominent organizations

– Evidence that you command a high wage or other substantially high remuneration in relation to others in the field

– Evidence of your business successes in the carrying out arts

For more information on Extraordinary Ability, read our policy in Volume 6, Part F, Chapter 2, of the USCIS Policy Manual.

** of Documentary Evidence That a Person is an Exceptional Professor or Researcher

In order to show you are an impressive professor or researcher, you need to consist of evidence of 2 of the 6 noted requirements below (or equivalent proof if any of the requirements do not easily apply):

– Evidence of invoice of significant rewards or awards for exceptional accomplishment

– Evidence of subscription in associations that require their members to demonstrate impressive achievement

– Evidence of published material in professional publications written by others about the alien’s work in the academic field

– Evidence of involvement, either on a panel or separately, as a judge of the work of others in the very same or allied scholastic field

– Evidence of original clinical or academic research study contributions in the field

– Evidence of authorship of academic books or short articles (in scholarly journals with global blood circulation) in the field

To learn more on Outstanding Professors and Researchers, read our policy in Volume 6, Part F, Chapter 3, of the USCIS Policy Manual.

To find out more on Multinational Executives or Managers, read our policy in Volume 6, Part F, Chapter 4, of the USCIS Policy Manual.

Application Process

Extraordinary Ability: You may look for yourself by submitting a Type I-140, Petition for Alien Worker.

Outstanding Professors and Researchers: Your U.S. company should file a Type I-140, Petition for Alien Worker. As part of the application process, your employer should have the ability to show a continuing ability to pay the offered wage as of the concern date. Your employer might utilize a yearly report, federal income tax return, or audited financial statement to show a continuing capability to pay your wage.

Multinational Manager or Executive: Your U.S. employer need to file USCIS Form I-140, Petition for Alien Worker. As part of the application process, your employer should have the ability to demonstrate a continuing ability to pay the offered wage since the concern date. Your company may utilize a yearly report, federal income tax return, or audited financial declaration to show a continuing ability to pay your wage.