While Your Green Card Application Is Pending with USCIS
by Admin
Posted on 01-01-2024 11:33 AM
Your priority date is your place in line to get a
green card
. If your employer sponsored you for a green card using the perm process, your priority date is the day that the u.
What Is an EB-2 visa?
Chapter 5 - Advanced Degree or Exceptional Ability
Eb-2 benefits foreign persons who have advanced degree in professional fields or have exceptional ability in the sciences, arts, or business. For this preference category, a job offer and labor certification is required unless the uscis waives that requirement in the national interest. About 40,000 visas plus those numbers not used in first preference are issued every year.
Around the year 2000, legacy immigration and naturalization service (ins) looked at whether a three-year foreign bachelor's degree can be considered equivalent to a us bachelor's degree. The administrative appeals office (aao) decided that a foreign three-year bachelor's degree cannot be considered equivalent to a four year us degree in order to meet the eb2 requirement of a bachelor's degree filed by five years of work experience. Therefore, a foreign national with a three-year foreign degree will have difficulty qualifying for this category. If you have questions about the eb2 advanced degree or exceptional ability immigrant petition category, please contact our immigration attorneys or call the law firm of shihab & associates at the nearest office close to you to consult with an attorney.
Second preference: up to 40,000 visas a year (plus any visas left over from the first preference) may be issued to persons who are “members of the professions holding advanced degrees or aliens of exceptional ability” in their field. 1. Eligibility members of professions holding advanced degrees or aliens of exceptional ability. An alien eligible for this category is a member of the professions holding an advanced degree or an alien of exceptional ability in the sciences, arts, or business. If an alien is claiming exceptional ability in the sciences, arts, or business and is seeking an exemption from the requirement of a job offer in the united states pursuant to section 203(b)(2)(b) of the act, then the alien, or anyone in the alien’s behalf, may be the petitioner.