U.S. Immigration law provides several avenues for immigration including immigration path for individuals employed in the USA by private employers in certain occupations. Eligibility for employment based immigration categories practically always, with some very few exceptions discussed on these pages, predicated on an employer’s desire to petition for immigration of the worker and ability to demonstrate the need for the worker including that there are no U.S. workers available to fill the particular job opportunity.

U.S. immigration law holds ability of the U.S. Citizens and Legal Permanent Residents to find employment in the USA sacred and strives to preserve it, making employment-based immigration rather cumbersome and technically as well as procedural complicated endeavor.

There are five categories of employment based immigration applications, which carry significant annual numerical limitation on visas and technical difficulties in the application process. Hence, employers are encourages to hire experienced immigration attorneys to handle these applications on their behalf.