Overview
The United States offers immigration options for religious workers, including the R-1 nonimmigrant visa for temporary religious workers and the EB-4 special immigrant category for certain religious workers seeking permanent residence.
Key requirements
Generally, the applicant must be a member of a bona fide nonprofit religious organization, and the position must be in a religious vocation or occupation (such as ministers and certain other religious workers). The petitioning organization must demonstrate its tax-exempt religious status and its ability to support the worker, and USCIS may conduct site visits to verify the petition.
How Do Law can help
We help religious organizations and workers document the qualifying relationship and position, prepare R-1 petitions and EB-4 immigrant cases, and respond to evidence requests and verification visits.