You might be qualified for this immigrant visa preference category if you are a skilled employee, professional, or other employee.

- Skilled workers are persons who can carrying out competent labor and whose job needs at least 2 years training or experience, not of a momentary or seasonal nature. Skilled employees must likewise meet any instructional, training, or experience requirements of the task chance. Relevant post-secondary education may be thought about as training.
- Professionals are persons who hold at least a U.S. bachelor's or foreign equivalent degree and belong to the occupations. Their jobs require a minimum of a bachelor's degree. Professionals must also meet any instructional, training, or experience requirements of the job chance.
- Other workers (likewise called unskilled employees) are persons efficient in carrying out unskilled labor whose job needs less than 2 years training or experience, not of a momentary or seasonal nature. Other workers must also satisfy any instructional, training, or experience requirements of the job opportunity.
Labor Certification

Third preference petitions are typically accompanied by an a signed Form ETA-9089, Application for Permanent Employment Certification, approved by DOL, or, for labor accreditation applications filed on or after June 1, 2023, utilizing DOL's Foreign Labor Application Gateway (FLAG) system, an approved and signed Form ETA-9089, Final Determination - Permanent Employment Certification Approval (Final Certification). For more details, see the Department of Labor's Foreign Labor Certification website.

Petitions for Schedule A professions are not required to have a DOL-approved labor accreditation. This is since DOL has actually already figured out there are not adequate U.S. employees for those occupations. Currently, DOL has designated 2 groups of occupations under Schedule A. Group I consists of professional nurses and . Group II includes beneficiaries with extraordinary ability in the sciences or arts (consisting of college and university instructors) and immigrants of extraordinary capability in the carrying out arts. A petition for Schedule A designation should be accompanied by a finished, uncertified Form ETA-9089, including all appropriate appendices, a signed Final Determination, and a valid dominating wage decision tracking number in Section E, Item 1 of the uncertified Form ETA-9089. For additional information on Schedule A requirements, see Volume 6, Part E, Chapter 7, of the USCIS Policy Manual.

- The labor certification (or application for Schedule A classification) needs to require at least 2 years of experience or training.
- You need to show that you have actually fulfilled any job requirements specified on the labor certification (or application for Schedule A classification). This proof may include official scholastic records and letters from existing or former employers.
- Relevant post-secondary education might be considered as training.

• The labor accreditation (or application for Schedule A classification) must require at least a U.S. bachelor's or foreign comparable degree, and a bachelor's degree is the normal requirement for entry into the occupation.
  - You should show that you have met any job requirements defined on the labor certification (or application for Schedule A designation). This proof may include main scholastic records and letters from existing or previous employers.
  - Education and experience may not be replaced for a bachelor's degree.

- The labor accreditation should need less than 2 years training or gratisafhalen.be experience.
- You need to show that you have actually fulfilled any requirements defined on the labor certification.
Immigrant Petition Process

Third choice petitions are filed using Form I-140, Immigrant Petition for Alien Workers. For info on required supporting documents and filing costs, see the Form I-140 website (that includes the Form I-140 directions and information about filing charges) and the Petition Filing and Processing Procedures for Form I-140, Immigrant Petition for Alien Workers webpage.