Immigrant visa · family EB
Immigrant route · EW-3 Other worker subcategory
Permanent immigration through employment, exceptional ability, special employment, or qualifying investment.
Planning brief
Questions to carry into an official conversation
Use these prompts to make the next conversation more specific. They are planning topics, not a checklist that predicts an outcome.
- 01
Identify the preference category, employer or petitioner, role, and any labor-certification or petition milestone.
- 02
Track the priority-date and visa-number information through the current Visa Bulletin rather than an undated summary.
- 03
Keep petition, civil-document, medical, and interview instructions separate from general category orientation.
Source trail
Start with the published government record.
U.S. Department of State · Employment-Based Immigrant Visas
Checked 2026-08-22. Government pages and post-specific instructions can change; save the current source you used.
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