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Employment-Based Green Cards~some paths to permanent residence are easier than others

There are many paths to a green card through work. Some require a test of the US labor market, others that the US employer and the worker's foreign one are related, and some that the employee possess special qualifications.

Employment based residence falls into five "preference categories" (but only three commonly used ones). But a helpful way to look at employment based immigration is that it falls into three major categories: cases requiring (1) a petitioner and a test of the US labor market, (2) a petitioner, but no test of the US labor market, and (3) neither a petitioner, nor a test of the US labor market.  Generally, cases that require no petitioner, or no test of the US labor market are more difficult to qualify for, but carry significant benefits.

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