Category Archives: Employment-based Immigration Categories

The process of filing an H-1B visa petition is challenging. Before beginning your H-1B application, experienced attorneys at our firm will consider your specific situation and evaluate every immigration option available to you, whether as a petitioning employer or a prospective alien employee. If our analysis determines that it is feasible and advantageous for you…

An “adjustment of status” (AOS) refers to the process by which an alien physically in the United States files a petition with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to adjust his or her status from nonimmigrant to immigrant, i.e. permanent resident status. Being eligible to adjust status can be thought of as the difference between…

The Immigration Act of 1990 (“IMMACT 90″) created the Immigrant Investor Program as the fifth preference category for employment-based immigration, also known as EB-5. This was the first time a category specifically facilitated the admission of immigrant investors as lawful permanent residents and currently remains the only such category to do so. The EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program is…