The third preference visa category is EB3. This visa category is for professionals, skilled, or other workers. Who is Eligible? There are three groups of people who are eligible for the EB3 visa category. The first group is professionals: Professionals should at minimum hold a bachelor’s degree, or the foreign equivalent and work in the field in which they earned their degree. A professional, for purposes of this visa category, can also be someone who is a member of the profession.
The United States makes approximately 140,000 immigrant visas available each fiscal year for aliens as well as their spouses and children who wish to immigrate to the United States based on their occupational skills. An individual needs the right combination of skills, education, and/or work experience to qualify for an employment-based immigrant visa and may be able to permanently reside in the United States. There are five employment-based immigrant visa preferences categories.
