Former INS Attorney Carl Shusterman explains employment-based visa categories:
- EB-1 Priority Workers
- EB-2 Advanced Degreed Professionals, NIWs, Exceptional Ability
- EB-3 Professional, Skilled and Unskilled Workers
- EB-4 Special Immigrants
- EB-5 Investors
He explains important considerations in applying for EB visas including acceptance limitations, principal and derivative beneficiary constraints, priority dates, alternate chargeability, as well as the implications that immigration reform may have on EB visas.
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Carl Shusterman
Carl Shusterman served as an INS Trial Attorney (1976-82) before opening a firm specializing exclusively in US immigration law. He is a Certified Specialist in Immigration Law who has testified as an expert witness before the US Senate Immigration Subcommittee. Carl was featured in the February 2018 edition of SuperLawyers Magazine.