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 ability, are an impressive professor or scientist, or are a specific multinational executive or supervisor. Each occupational classification has certain requirements that must be fulfilled:

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

No labor accreditation is required.

* Criteria for Demonstrating Extraordinary Ability

In order to demonstrate you have actually sustained national or global acclaim which your accomplishments have been in your field of competence, you need to either include evidence of a one-time accomplishment (significant internationally-recognized award) or 3 of the 10 listed requirements below (or equivalent evidence if any of the criteria do not easily apply):

– Evidence of receipt of lesser nationally or worldwide acknowledged prizes or awards for employment excellence

– Evidence of your subscription in associations in the field which require outstanding accomplishment of their members

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

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

– Evidence of your initial scientific, scholarly, creative, athletic, or business-related contributions of major significance to the field

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

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

– Evidence of your efficiency of a leading or critical role in distinguished companies

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

– Evidence of your business successes in the carrying out arts

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

** Examples of Documentary Evidence That an Individual is an Impressive Professor or Researcher

In order to show you are an exceptional teacher or researcher, you should include evidence of 2 of the 6 noted requirements below (or comparable proof if any of the requirements do not easily apply):

– Evidence of receipt of major rewards or awards for impressive accomplishment

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

– Evidence of published product in expert publications composed by others about the alien’s operate in the academic field

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

– Evidence of initial clinical or academic research contributions in the field

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

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

For more details 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 might look for employment yourself by filing a Form I-140, Petition for Alien Worker.

Outstanding Professors and Researchers: Your U.S. employer must file a Type I-140, Petition for Alien Worker. As part of the application procedure, employment your employer must have the ability to demonstrate a continuing ability to pay the offered wage since the priority date. Your company might use a yearly report, federal income tax return, or audited financial declaration to demonstrate a continuing ability to pay your wage.

Multinational Manager or Executive: Your U.S. employer need to submit USCIS Form I-140, Petition for employment Alien Worker. As part of the application procedure, employment your employer must be able to show a continuing capability to pay the provided wage since the concern date. Your company might utilize an annual report, federal earnings tax return, or audited financial statement to demonstrate a continuing capability to pay your wage.