The Green Card offers foreign nationals the privilege of living and working permanently in the United States. U.S. companies sponsor employment-based Green Cards. Below is a list of the various ways that you may qualify for an employment-based Green Card.

1. Employment First Preference

• Persons with extraordinary ability

• Outstanding professors and researchers \

• Managers and executives in multinational companies

2. Employment Second Preference

• Professionals with advanced degrees

• Persons with exceptional ability

• Exceptional professors and researchers

3. Employment Second Preference with National Interest Waiver (NIW)

• Persons with exceptional ability involved in activities that will substantially benefit the U.S. national interest

• Advanced degree professionals involved in activities that will substantially benefit the U.S. national interest

4. Employment Third Preference

• Professionals with a U.S. bachelor's or foreign equivalent degree

• Skilled workers

• Unskilled workers

5. Schedule A

• Registered nurses and physical therapists

• Persons qualified to work in one of the shortage occupations on the Schedule A list