Motive

Money/Time

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• Strategy and Budget to improve your USA skills and possibilities
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• The cost of living

Method

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• Three Visas to get started
• Executives or Managers in a foreign business
• Investors
• Specialized workers (professionals, people with a degree or extensive knowledge and experience equal to a degree)
• Students
• Other Temporary Visas

Permanent Residence Employment

• Introduction
• The Labor Certification Process

First Preference: �“Priority Workers�

• a. Aliens with extraordinary ability in the sciences, arts, education, business or athletics
• b. Outstanding professors and researchers
• c. Certain multinational executives and managers

Second Preference

• Professionals with advanced degrees

• People of exceptional ability and the National Interest Waiver

• A.    � Exceptional ability

• B.    � National Interest

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Third Preference:�

Skilled workers, professionals and other workers                              

Fourth Preference:

Certain Special Immigrants

Fifth Preference:

Investor/Employment creation

Permanent Residence � Family

Marriage to a U.S. Citizen

-Termination of conditional residence

Other Immediate Relatives

- Parents and children of US citizens

Other qualifying family relationships

Family relationships qualifying for permanent residence:

�  First Preference-Unmarried sons/daughters of US citizens

�  Second Preference-Spouses, children and unmarried sons/daughters of permanent residents

�  Third Preference-Married sons/daughters of US citizens

�  Fourth Preference-Brothers and sisters of US citizens

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