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What is an EB-1 Visa?

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Immigration attorney Karen-Lee Pollak explains how to bring an employee to work in the United States with an EB-1 visa.

eb-1 visaThe EB-1 is a preference category for United States employment-based permanent residency. It is intended for "priority workers". Those are foreign nationals who either have "extraordinary abilities", or are "outstanding professors or researchers", and also includes "some executives and managers of foreign companies who are transferred to the US".  It allows them to remain permanently in the US.

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