Davis Immigration helps employers with their business immigration needs. We represent clients in the following areas:
Non-Immigrant Visas allow people to live and work in the United States on a non-permanent basis.
H-1B Specialty Professional Visas are for individuals employed in specialty occupations and require a minimum of a Bachelor’s degree or higher. – more information
H-2B Visas permit employers to hire foreign workers to come temporarily to the United States and perform nonagricultural labor on a one-time, seasonal, peakload or intermittent basis. – more information
L-1 Intracompany Visas allow U.S. companies to transfer existing international managers, executives and those with specialized knowledge to the United States. – more information
O-1 Extraordinary Ability Visas are for individuals who demonstrate extraordinary ability in the arts, sciences, athletics, medicine or business. – more information
TN NAFTA Visas are for citizens of Canada or Mexico who work in certain designated professions. – more information
E-1/E-2 Treaty Trader & Investor Visas are for citizens of treaty nations who engage in trade or investment with the United States. – more information
R-1 Religious Worker Visas are for those who come to the United States to work as a minister or in another religious vocation. – more information
B-1 Business Visitor Visas are for individuals who come to the United States for business purposes for a short, defined period of time. – more information
J-1 Exchange Visitor Visas are for participants of work and study based educational and cultural exchanges. – more information
F-1 Student Visas are for full-time students enrolled in an academic or language training program. –more information
Immigrant Visas (Green Cards) allow people to make the United States their permanent home.
PERM Labor Certifications are issued by the Department of Labor (DOL) and allow employers to hire a foreign worker to work permanently in the United States. In most instances, before the U.S. employer can submit an immigration petition to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the employer must obtain a certified labor certification application from the DOL’s Employment and Training Administration (ETA). The DOL must certify to the USCIS that there are not sufficient U.S. workers able, willing, qualified and available to accept the job opportunity in the area of intended employment and that employment of the foreign worker will not adversely affect the wages and working conditions of similarly employed U.S. workers. – more information
EB-1 Multinational Manager green cards allow employers to bypass the PERM Labor Certification process. Individuals must be international executives or managerial employees of multinational companies. – more information
EB-1 Individual with Extraordinary Ability green cards are available to individuals with extraordinary ability who are recognized as the top in their field. This category is exempt from the PERM Labor Certification process and is open to self-petitioners, businesses, universities and non-profits. – more information
EB-1 Outstanding Professors and Researchers green cards are a category of TN NAFTA visas that allow businesses, universities and non-profits to sponsor researchers for permanent residence while exempting the PERM Labor Certification process. A doctoral degree is usually required and the individual must demonstrate outstanding achievement in a particular academic field. – more information
EB-2 National Interest Waiver (NIW) green cards allow self-petitioners, businesses, universities and non-profits to sponsor individuals who can demonstrate that the work they do is in the national interest, work in an area of substantial intrinsic merit that has a proposed impact that is national in scope, and show that waiving the PERM Labor Certification process benefits the national interests of the United States. – more information
EB-3 Third Preference green cards require a PERM Labor Certification. Employer sponsorship is also required. There are three subcategories: skilled workers, professionals and other workers. The waiting list for the other worker subcategory has a long backlog. – more information
EB-4 Special Immigrant green cards mostly apply to religious workers, but there are a handful of other professions that qualify under this category. Religious workers must be members of a religious denomination and intending to work as a minister or as an employee of a religious organization – more information
EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program green cards are available to individuals who invest $1,000,000 or $500,000 (if in a rural area or area of high unemployment) in a new commercial enterprise that creates a minimum of 10 full-time jobs for US workers. – more information