We at North America Immigration Law Group usually receive hundreds of inquiries regarding employment-based immigration every week. Many potential clients have been asking whether they need to have an H-1B visa to receive a green card. So we would like to clarify that an H-1B visa is not a prerequisite for any type of a green card. In fact, we have hundreds, if not thousands of clients who obtained their green cards while holding visas such as F-1, F-1 OPT, J-1, B1/B2 or TN.
A common misconception is that a person on a non-immigrant visa that requires non-immigrant intent must switch to a dual-intent visa before they can apply for a green card. Dual-intent visas include H, O. L and P visas. However, this is not true. While you may hold a visa that requires non-immigrant intent, you are not prohibited from changing your mind and seeking permanent residence at a later time. For this reason, you are able to switch directly from a non-immigrant visa such as F or J to an immigrant visa such as EB-1A or EB-2 (NIW). There may be certain factors that do not allow you to switch such as INA 212 (e) two year home residency requirement attached to certain J visa, but obtaining an H-1B visa would not alleviate these factors.
If you wish to switch from a visa that requires non-immigrant intent to an immigrant visa, you are said to have immigrant intent. This is not an issue once you already have your non-immigrant visa and are in the United States, but you might encounter issues extending your non-immigrant visa or obtain a new visa stamp if you have immigrant intent. For this reason, switching to a visa that allows for dual-intent can be beneficial. If you were to switch to one of these visas, you would be able to extend your underlying non-immigrant visa and travel without having to worry that your green card process will impact that visa.
While changing to a dual-intent visa may alleviate some of the frustrations that accompany applying for a green card from different non-immigrant visa categories, the time and cost involved in switching visa statuses for the sole reason of applying for a green card often outweighs any benefits. When a client comes to us in a status that requires non-immigrant intent, we are able to assist them with a personalized case strategy that takes into account their current status, past statuses, and their green card aspirations so that they may successfully obtain their green card.
If you are interested in starting your green application based on categories such as EB1-A Alien of Extraordinary Ability, EB-1B Outstanding Researcher/Professor, or EB-2 National Interest Waiver, feel free to email us for free evaluation at law@wegreened.com.
North America Immigration Law Group – WeGreened.com ( Also known as Chen Immigration Law Associates) is one of the major U.S. immigration law firms with the focus on the petitions of EB-2 NIW (National Interest Waiver), EB-1A (Alien of Extraordinary Ability) and EB-1B (Outstanding Researchers/Professors) categories.
We are pleased to announce that we have more than 600 EB1 and NIW case approvals in the year of 2013 and overall approval rate exceeds 98.5%*, which makes us a leading U.S. immigration law firm with the most approval cases and highest successful rate in the field of NIW/EB1 I-140 immigration petitions. This year (2013), we got more than 516 physical approval notices of EB-1 and EB-2 NIW cases with the approval rate exceeding 98.5%*. Those approvals notices are from clients who retained us from the beginning of the case preparation. In addition, we also successfully helped around additional 70 clients preparing their RFE (Request for Evidence) responses that were originally filed by other law firms or by DIY clients filing the cases themselves. In addition, we helped around 30 clients preparing for their EB1B cases for their employers to file. In these cases, we are not able to get approval notices as we are not the attorney on record.
We provide the most comprehensive service for NIW (National Interest Waiver) and EB-1 petitions, including drafting recommendation letters (from the scratch), drafting the petition letter and respond to RFE (without extra charge). Qualified clients are entitled to our “approval or refund” service and if in a rare case the petition is denied, the attorney fee will be refunded. Our policy is specified in our retainer agreement and is binding to us. Because of the quality of our service, our clients comments and reviews are also impeccable.
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*As of December 2013, the approval rate is 98.5 % for all NIW cases and 100% for guaranteed NIW cases.
*As of December 2013, the approval rate for all EB1 cases is 95% and 99% for our guaranteed EB1 cases.
*The approval rate statistics only include cases that were originally filed by our law firm and exclude RFE cases that were taken over in the middle from other law firms or from DIY clients.
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We are pleased to announce that North America Immigration Law Group has so far received over 3,500 EB-1A, EB-1B and EB-2 NIW approval notices. In 2014 and 2015, the approval rate is 98.22% for cases using our "Approval or Refund®" (money back guarantee) service and 96.95% for all kinds of services.
For NIW cases, the approval rate is 99.18% for cases using our "Approval or Refund®" (money back guarantee) service and the overall approval rate for all NIW cases is 98.47%.
For EB1A cases, the approval rate is 97.25% for "Approval or Refund®" (money back guarantee) service and the overall approval rate for all EB1A cases is 95.27%.
We are one of the leading U.S. immigration law firms providing the most comprehensive services for EB-1/NIW petition with a large volume of approval cases and high approval rate.
Our staff keeps close track of the latest immigration trends and regulations of USCIS (U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services), decisions of AAO (Administrative Appeal Office) and judicial review opinions. The massive collected materials contribute to the most convincing arguments and winning strategies of our firm for EB1A, EB1B, and NIW petitions.
If you are interested in filing the green card, please send your CV to law@wegreened.com for our free evaluation. Our attorneys will email you back with the evaluation result within 24 hours.
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