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Permanent-worker and investment categories across the five employment-based preference groups.
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Employment-based preference categories
Permanent-worker and investment categories across the five employment-based preference groups.
- 01EB-1First preference: priority workersEmployers, workers, entrepreneurs, agents, and families organizing an employment-based immigrant case.
- 02EB-2Second preference: advanced degree or exceptional abilityEmployers, workers, entrepreneurs, agents, and families organizing an employment-based immigrant case.
- 03EB-3Third preference: professionals, skilled workers, and other workersEmployers, workers, entrepreneurs, agents, and families organizing an employment-based immigrant case.
- 04EW-3Other worker subcategoryEmployers, workers, entrepreneurs, agents, and families organizing an employment-based immigrant case.
- 05EB-4Fourth preference: certain special immigrantsEmployers, workers, entrepreneurs, agents, and families organizing an employment-based immigrant case.
- 06EB-5Fifth preference: employment creation investorsEmployers, workers, entrepreneurs, agents, and families organizing an employment-based immigrant case.