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Employment-Based Immigration: Third Preference EB-3

You may be qualified for this immigrant visa preference category if you are a competent employee, employment professional, or other worker.

– Skilled employees are individuals who can carrying out competent labor and whose job needs at least 2 years training or experience, not of a short-term or seasonal nature. Skilled workers must likewise meet any academic, training, or experience requirements of the task opportunity. Relevant post-secondary education might be considered as training.

– Professionals are persons who hold at least a U.S. bachelor’s or foreign equivalent degree and belong to the occupations. Their jobs require a minimum of a bachelor’s degree. Professionals should likewise satisfy any instructional, training, or experience requirements of the task chance.

– Other workers (also called unskilled workers) are persons capable of carrying out common labor whose task needs less than 2 years training or experience, not of a short-term or seasonal nature. Other workers should also satisfy any instructional, training, or experience requirements of the job opportunity.

Labor Certification

Third choice petitions are normally accompanied by an a signed Form ETA-9089, employment Application for Permanent Employment Certification, authorized by DOL, or, for labor certification applications filed on or after June 1, 2023, utilizing DOL’s Foreign Labor Application Gateway (FLAG) system, employment an approved and signed Form ETA-9089, Final Determination – Permanent Employment Certification Approval (Final Certification). To learn more, see the Department of Labor’s Foreign Labor Certification website.

Petitions for Schedule An occupations are not required to have a DOL-approved labor accreditation. This is because DOL has currently figured out there are not sufficient U.S. workers for those occupations. Currently, DOL has designated 2 groups of occupations under Schedule A. Group I consists of expert nurses and physical therapists. Group II includes recipients with remarkable capability in the sciences or arts (including institution of higher learning instructors) and immigrants of exceptional capability in the performing arts. A petition for Schedule A designation should be accompanied by a completed, uncertified Form ETA-9089, including all appropriate appendices, a signed Final Determination, and a legitimate prevailing wage decision tracking number in Section E, Item 1 of the uncertified Form ETA-9089. For more details on Schedule A requirements, see Volume 6, Part E, Chapter 7, of the USCIS Policy Manual.

– The labor certification (or application for Schedule A classification) must require at least 2 years of experience or training.

– You must demonstrate that you have actually fulfilled any job requirements specified on the labor certification (or application for Schedule A classification). This evidence might consist of main academic records and letters from present or previous employers.

– Relevant post-secondary education might be thought about as training.

– The labor certification (or application for Schedule A designation) needs to need at least a U.S. bachelor’s or foreign equivalent degree, and a bachelor’s degree is the normal requirement for entry into the occupation.

– You must demonstrate that you have met any task requirements specified on the labor accreditation (or application for Schedule A designation). This evidence may consist of main scholastic records and letters from present or former employers.

and experience might not be alternatived to a bachelor’s degree.

– The labor accreditation need to need less than 2 years training or experience.

– You should show that you have satisfied any requirements specified on the labor certification.

Immigrant Petition Process

Third preference petitions are filed utilizing Form I-140, Immigrant Petition for Alien Workers. For information on needed supporting paperwork and employment filing charges, see the Form I-140 website (which consists of the Form I-140 guidelines and details about filing fees) and the Petition Filing and Processing Procedures for Form I-140, Immigrant Petition for Alien Workers webpage.