Employment-Based Immigration: Third Preference EB-3

You might be qualified for this immigrant visa choice classification if you are a skilled worker, expert, or other worker.

– Skilled employees are persons who can carrying out competent labor and whose task needs a minimum of 2 years training or experience, not of a short-term or seasonal nature. Skilled workers need to also meet any educational, training, or experience requirements of the job chance. Relevant post-secondary education may be considered as training.

– Professionals are individuals who hold a minimum of a U.S. bachelor’s or foreign comparable degree and belong to the occupations. Their tasks need a minimum of a bachelor’s degree. Professionals must also satisfy any educational, training, or experience requirements of the job chance.

– Other workers (also called inexperienced employees) are individuals capable of carrying out common labor whose job requires less than 2 years training or experience, not of a temporary or seasonal nature. Other should also satisfy any educational, training, or experience requirements of the job opportunity.

Labor Certification

Third preference petitions are normally accompanied by an a signed Form ETA-9089, Application for Permanent Employment Certification, approved by DOL, or, for labor certification applications submitted on or after June 1, 2023, using DOL’s Foreign Labor Application Gateway (FLAG) system, an authorized 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 employment Schedule An occupations are not needed to have a DOL-approved labor certification. This is since DOL has currently figured out there are not sufficient U.S. employees for those occupations. Currently, DOL has actually designated 2 groups of professions under Schedule A. Group I includes expert nurses and physiotherapists. Group II includes recipients with exceptional capability in the sciences or arts (consisting of institution of higher learning instructors) and immigrants of exceptional capability in the performing arts. A petition for Schedule A classification should be accompanied by a finished, uncertified Form ETA-9089, consisting of 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 employment additional information on Schedule A requirements, see Volume 6, employment Part E, Chapter 7, of the USCIS Policy Manual.

– The labor certification (or application for Schedule A designation) should require a minimum of 2 years of experience or training.

– You need to show that you have actually fulfilled any task requirements defined on the labor certification (or application for Schedule A designation). This evidence may include main academic records and letters from current or previous employers.

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

– The labor accreditation (or application for Schedule A classification) should require a minimum of a U.S. bachelor’s or foreign equivalent degree, and a bachelor’s degree is the typical requirement for entry into the profession.

– You must show that you have actually met any task requirements specified on the labor certification (or application for Schedule A designation). This proof may include main scholastic records and letters from current or former employers.

– Education and experience may not be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.

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

– You need to demonstrate that you have satisfied any requirements specified on the labor certification.

Immigrant Petition Process

Third choice petitions are submitted utilizing Form I-140, Immigrant Petition for Alien Workers. For information on required supporting paperwork and filing fees, see the Form I-140 web page (which includes the Form I-140 directions and info about filing fees) and the Petition Filing and Processing Procedures for Form I-140, Immigrant Petition for Alien Workers web page.