

	*U.S. Immigration - Permanent Status*

The Bomza Law Group offers immigration assistance pertaining to U.S. Permanent Residence Status.

Free U.S. Permanent Visa Assessment:

We are one of the only law firms that offers a FREE online assessment. Our experienced immigration lawyers with our dedicated and skilled paralegals, will review the information in your completed assessment form and forward a detailed assessment to you notifying you of your eligibility to qualify for a U.S. Green card. Please complete the Assessment Form under Do You Qualify?

Please allow 24 hours for our office to respond to your assessment inquiry. Or you may call or fax us at Contact Us.

Description of Permanent Visas to U.S.

Priority Worker

Extra-Ordinary Ability:
A petition for a person of extra-ordinary ability must be accompanied by evidence that the alien has sustained national or international acclaim and that his/her achievements have been recognized in the field of expertise. The advantage of this type of application is that the individual does not require a job offer and, therefore, does not have to undergo a labor certification process, which is fraught with complications and may be extremely lengthy.

Outstanding Professors and Researchers:
Any United States employer intending to employ a professor or researcher who is outstanding in an academic field may make application for this person. This category requires an offer of employment from a prospective United States employer. However, there is no labour certification required.

Certain Multi-National Executives and Managers:
To apply for permanent residence under this, an individual must have been employed as a Manager or Executive outside the United States for the same U.S. employer, subsidiary or affiliate of the U.S. employer for at least one year in the three years immediately preceding the filing of the application. The individual must also be entering the United States to work as a Manager or Executive of the U.S. employer.

If the applicant is already working in the United States as an Executive or Manager on an L nonimmigrant visa, the chances are excellent that they will be eligible in this category as the criteria of eligibility are identical.

Professionals who hold advanced degrees or possess exceptional ability

This category includes individuals involved in the sciences, arts or business. An advanced degree is a United States academic or professional degree or foreign equivalent degree above that of a baccalaureate degree. A United States baccalaureate degree or foreign equivalent degree followed by at least five years of progressive experience in the specialty shall be considered the equivalent of a masters degree. This category ordinarily requires a job offer or labor certification. If it is proven to the Immigration and Naturalization Service that the applicant’s employment in the United States would be in the national interest (to be determined on a case-by-case basis), however, then s/he may be exempted from the job offer and labor certification requirement.

Skilled Workers, Professionals and Other Workers

A Professional means a qualified alien who holds at least a United States or foreign equivalent baccalaureate degree and who is a member of a profession.

A Skilled Worker means a person who is capable, at the time of petitioning for this classification, of performing skilled labour (requiring at least two years’ training or experience not of a temporary or seasonal nature) for which qualified workers are not available in the United States. Any relevant post-secondary education may be considered as training for the purposes of this provision.

Other Worker means a qualified applicant who is capable, at the time of petitioning for this classification, of performing unskilled labour (requiring less than two years’ training or experience not of a temporary or seasonal nature) for which qualified workers are not available in the United States.

This category requires both a job offer from a United States entity and a labor certification.

Religious Workers

A petition may be filed by or for a person who, for at least the two years immediately preceding the filing of the petition, has been a member of a religious denomination which has a bona fide non-profit religious organization in the United States. The individual must be coming to the United States solely for the purpose of:

carrying on the vocation of a minister of that religious denomination;
working for the organization at the organization’s request in a professional capacity; or
in a religious vocation or occupation for the organization or a bona fide organization which is affiliated with the religious denomination and is exempt from taxation. All three types of religious workers must have been performing the vocation, professional or other work continuously for at least the two-year period immediately preceding the filing of the petition. There is no labour certification required for this category.

Employment Creation Aliens (Alien Entrepreneur)

A person who has invested or is actively in the process of investing lawfully obtained capital in a new commercial enterprise in the United States which will create full-time positions for not fewer than ten qualifying employees may make application for permanent residence. The amount of capital necessary to make a qualifying investment in the United States is $1,000,000 (U.S.). The amount of capital necessary to make a qualifying investment in a targeted employment area within the United States is $500,000 (U.S.). A targeted employment area means an area which, at the time of the investment, is a rural area or an area which has experienced unemployment of at least 150% of the national average rate.

Family-Related Immigration

Immediate Family: If you are the child under age twenty-one, spouse, or parent of a United States citizen age twenty-one or above, you are eligible for a green card.

Family First Preference: An individual is eligible to apply for permanent residence pursuant to this category if they are the unmarried, adult (age 21 or older) son or daughter of a United States citizen.

Family Second Preference: This visa category is for spouses and minor children of United States permanent residents as well as their adult, unmarried children.

Family Third Preference: An individual is eligible for permanent residence in this category if they are the married child of a United States citizen.

Family Fourth Preference: Brothers or sisters of an adult, United States citizen may acquire a United States green card pursuant to this category.

Bomza Law Group
Immigration Lawyers
45 St. Clair Avenue West, Suite 1000
Toronto, Ontario, M4V 1K9, Canada
Tel: 416-598-8849 or 1-800-993-9971
Fax: 416-598-0331
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