The Employment-Based Green Card Procedure provides Lawful Permanent Residence to certain categories of employees.

Most commonly, US companies find themselves in need of specialized labor and turn to countries with an excellent work force in a certain field to enhance their business.  Gregory P. Sheehan can assist you whether you are the employer or the employee to make the employment based Green Card process as simple as possible.

The procedure, in simple terms, begins when the employer files a labor certification with the Department of Labor.  Once this is approved, the employer will file a petition for the alien worker as well as an I-485, Adjustment of Status to Permanent Resident.

To be more specific depends on several factors and depending on the alien’s expertise, and depending on the US industry, the procedure is different.

Contact Gregory P. Sheehan for more information about the employment based Green Card.