Employment-Based Immigration: Third Preference EB-3

You may be qualified for this immigrant visa choice category if you are a proficient worker, professional, or other worker.

– Skilled workers are persons who can carrying out competent labor and whose job requires at least 2 years training or experience, not of a short-term or employment seasonal nature. Skilled workers must likewise satisfy any educational, training, or experience requirements of the job opportunity. Relevant post-secondary education may be thought about as training.

– Professionals are individuals who hold a minimum of a U.S. bachelor’s or foreign comparable degree and are a member of the professions. Their jobs need a minimum of a bachelor’s degree. Professionals need to also meet any instructional, training, or experience requirements of the job chance.

– Other workers (likewise called unskilled workers) are persons efficient in carrying out unskilled work whose task needs less than 2 years training or experience, not of a temporary or seasonal nature. Other workers need to also meet any instructional, training, or experience requirements of the task 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, employment for labor accreditation applications submitted on or after June 1, 2023, utilizing DOL’s Foreign Labor Application Gateway (FLAG) system, an approved and signed Form ETA-9089, Final Determination – Permanent Employment Certification Approval (Final Certification). For additional information, see the Department of Labor’s Foreign Labor Certification website.

Petitions for Schedule A professions are not needed to have a DOL-approved labor certification. This is due to the fact that DOL has actually currently figured out there are not adequate U.S. employees for those occupations. Currently, DOL has designated 2 groups of professions under Schedule A. Group I consists of expert nurses and physical therapists. Group II includes recipients with remarkable capability in the sciences or arts (consisting of college and university teachers) and immigrants of remarkable ability in the carrying out arts. A petition for Schedule A classification should be accompanied by a completed, uncertified Form ETA-9089, consisting of all appropriate appendices, a signed Final Determination, and a valid dominating wage decision tracking number in Section E, Item 1 of the uncertified Form ETA-9089. To find out more on Schedule A requirements, see Volume 6, Part E, Chapter 7, employment of the USCIS Policy Manual.

– The labor accreditation (or application for A classification) must require a minimum of 2 years of experience or training.

– You should show that you have satisfied any task requirements specified on the labor certification (or application for Schedule A classification). This proof may include official scholastic records and letters from current or previous companies.

– Relevant post-secondary education might be considered as training.

– The labor accreditation (or application for Schedule A classification) 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 profession.

– You need to show that you have actually fulfilled any job requirements specified on the labor accreditation (or application for Schedule A classification). This proof might consist of official academic records and letters from present or previous companies.

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

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

– You must demonstrate that you have actually met any requirements defined on the labor accreditation.

Immigrant Petition Process

Third choice petitions are filed using Form I-140, Immigrant Petition for Alien Workers. For info on needed supporting documents and filing charges, see the Form I-140 website (which consists of the Form I-140 directions and details about filing charges) and the Petition Filing and Processing Procedures for Form I-140, Immigrant Petition for Alien Workers web page.