U.S. Upper Management and Multinational Businesses EB-1 (c) Immigration Lawyers
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Employment Based Immigration: Management and Multinational Businesses EB-1 (c)
EB-1 (c) is reserved for managerial or executive employees or employee - owners of businesses with operations in both the United States and abroad.
The purpose of the immigrant classification is to permit the employee to carry out the same or similar function at the United States "branch office".
A branch office may be a subsidiary or an affiliated organization. The businesses may be corporate, joint ventures, or comprised of sole proprietorships or partnerships.
As for the character of business conducted at the branch office and the foreign location the activities do not have to be the same.
Petitions for immigrant classifications of this character do not require a labor certification. All that is required is documentation of:
- The existence of a United States and foreign based operation of at least one year in duration;
- The appropriate ownership and control of both operations one to another;
- The employee's employment in a managerial or executive capacity abroad one year out of the past three (see below); and
- The intention to employ that individual in a similar capacity at the United States branch office.
Employment in the past three years encompasses employment which occurred in one out of the three years from either the date the petition for immigrant classification is to be filed or from the date the employee last came to the United States branch office to work as a nonimmigrant H-1B, E-1, E-2, or L-1A.
An individual with this immigrant preference classification is entitled to immigrate in the order of the date the petition is filed (the priority date) and as soon as an immigrant visa is available. Immigrant visa availability is a function of the number of visas available in any given year, the number of petitions already on file for the particular preference classification, and the country of birth of the applicant or his or her spouse.
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