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A. Priority Workers. This category allots 40,000 visas annually. A Labor Certification is not required for Priority Workers. There are three groups of Priority Workers:

1. Workers of Extraordinary Ability. Highly accomplished workers in the arts, sciences, education, business, or athletics. This category is reserved for those individuals who have risen to the top of their profession and who are coming to the United States to work in their field.

2. Outstanding Professors and Researchers. Internationally recognized professors and researchers who are coming to the U.S. to accept a tenured or tenure-track position with a university or to conduct research in the private sector for a qualified employer.

3. Multinational Executives and Managers. Foreign nationals who are coming to work in an executive or managerial position in the U.S. and who have been employed with the same company, subsidiary, or affiliate abroad for at least one year out of the past three.

B. Advanced Degree Workers. This category allocates 40,000 visas annually. A Labor Certification is required unless it can be shown that a worker will serve our “national interest”. There are two groups of these workers:

1. Advanced Degree: Workers with at least a Master’s Degree who are coming to the U.S. to work in their field.

2. Exceptional Ability: Workers who can demonstrate exceptional ability (in lieu of an advanced degree) in business, science, or the arts. This category is less demanding than the Extraordinary Worker described above.

C. Skilled and Unskilled Workers. This category allocates 40,000 visas annually. A Labor Certification is always required. There are three groups of these workers:

1. Skilled Workers: Workers with at least two years of training or experience.

2. Professionals: Workers with at least a Bachelor’s Degree.

3. Unskilled Workers. Workers with less than two years of training or experience. The unskilled workers category has a very long wait list for a visa.

D. Investors. Investors in a new commercial enterprise, with the minimum investment set at $1 million (may be lower for rural or high unemployment areas). Each million dollar investment must provide at least ten new jobs, unless the business locality has been designated as a Regional Service Center, which waives the job requirement.

E. Diversity Immigrants. Persons from countries under-represented in the U.S. Applicants must have at least a high school diploma (or foreign equivalent) or two years’ experience in a skilled occupation. This annual program allocates visas on a lottery-type basis.

F. Religious Workers. Workers with at least two years’ experience in a religious occupation and two years’ membership in a particular denomination who come to the U.S. to work in that religious occupation.