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Practice Areas and Services

E-1/E-2:
Treaty traders and investors
- Founders or owners of the business enterprise
- Managers and executives
- Essential skills workers
H-1B: Professionals with at least a baccalaureate degree in a specialty occupation
H-2B: Temporary or seasonal workers
H-1B3: Fashion models of distinguished merit and ability
L-1A: Intracompany transfer of managers and executives from an overseas office
L-1B: Intracompany transfer of employees with specialized knowledge from an overseas office
O-1A: Persons with an extraordinary ability in the sciences, arts, education, business, or athletics
O-1B: Persons with an extraordinary achievement in motion picture or television industry
O-2: Persons who will assist an O-1 non-immigrant, using critical skills or expertise not of a general nature
P-1A: Internationally recognized athletes
P-1B: Internationally recognized entertainers or groups
P-2: Performers under a reciprocal exchange program
P-3: Artists or entertainers to perform, teach, or coach under a program that is culturally unique
I: Representatives of the foreign media: press, radio, film, or print
H-3: Trainees under an employer-established training program with only incidental productive employment
J-1: Trainees on an individualized training placement plan under an exchange visitor program approved by DOS
R-1: Religious workers
TN: NAFTA professionals from Canada and Mexico

F-1:
Academic Students
- Optional Practical Training (OPT)
- Curricular Practical Training (CPT)
- STEM extensions
- Cap-gap extensions
- Reinstatement to valid status
M-1: Vocational Students
J-1:
Exchange visitors under programs designated by DOS
- Waivers of the 2 year home residence requirement
- Waivers for doctors under Conrad State 30 Program
- Requests for DOS advisory opinions
Q-1: Exchange visitors under programs designated by USCIS

A: Diplomats
G: Foreign government officials to international organizations
N: Family members of certain officials in G or NATO status
C-2: Foreign nationals traveling to the U.N. for official work; U.N. officials entering the U.S. while in transit to another country
C-3: Foreign government officials entering the U.S. while in transit to another foreign country for official work
NATO: NATO personnel

Past persecution or well-founded fear of future persecution because of:

Constitutional rights
Statutory rights
Consular notification and access under the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations

If Congress enacts legislation, additional information will be posted regarding newly-established immigration benefits and qualification requirements

Immediate Relatives of U.S. Citizens
- Children, certain step-children, and adopted children
- Spouses and certain widows or widowers
- Parents and certain step-parents of adult U.S. citizens
Preference Categories
- FB-1: Unmarried sons and daughters of U.S. citizens
- FB-2A: Spouses and children of LPRs
- FB-2B: Unmarried sons and daughters of LPRs
- FB-3: Married sons and daughters of U.S. citizens
- FB-4: Brothers and sisters of adult U.S. citizens

EB-1: Priority Workers
- Persons with extraordinary ability in the sciences, arts, education, business, or athletics
- Outstanding professors and researchers
- Multinational managers and executives
EB-2: Exceptional Ability and Advanced Degree Professionals
- Persons with exceptional ability in the sciences, arts, business
- Members of the professions holding advanced degrees
EB-3: Skilled Workers; Professionals; Unskilled Workers
- Persons with at least two years of experience as skilled workers
- Professionals with a baccalaureate degree
- Other workers with less than two years of experience
EB-4: Special Immigrants
- Religious ministers and workers
- Retired employees of international organizations in G-4 status
- Members of the U.S. Armed Forces
EB-5: Investors and Entrepreneurs
- Investment in a new business enterprise
- Investment in a troubled business
- Investment under a Regional Center Pilot Program