Immigrant visas require sponsorship, in most cases by a third party. All immigrant visas require the filing and approval of a qualifying petition.
Immigrant Visas
Immigrant Visa applications
Employment Based Visas
There are five categories of employment based visas:
First Preference
- Individuals with extraordinary ability
- Outstanding professors and researchers
- Multinational executives and managers
Third Preference
- Professionals
- Skilled workers
- Other workers
Fourth Preference
- Religious workers
- Special immigrant juveniles
- Broadcasters
- G-4 international organization or NATO-6 employees and their family members
- International employees of the U.S. government abroad
Fourth Preference
- Armed forces members
- Panama canal zone employees
- Certain physicians
- Afghan and Iraqi translators
- Afghan and Iraqi
Citizenship issues encompass such things as citizenship at birth, citizenship acquired through parents, and naturalization.
Family Based Visas
Immediate Relatives
Spouses of U.S. citizens, minor unmarried children of U.S. citizens, and parents of U.S. citizens over the age of 21
First Preference
- Unmarried adult children of U.S. citizens.
Third Preference
- Married children of U.S. citizens