Our Mission
The Legal Edge is dedicated to upholding the great
American heritage for providing opportunities and excellence through immigration. We promote legal immigration to
the United States by protecting the rights and privileges granted by American citizenship. We give non-immigrants the opportunites
for education and training in America to bring back to their homelands for world development.
October
2010: Mediante un comunicado de prensa, INS determino no deportar a personas indocumentadas si estos tiene una peticion
sometida a su favor. Es importante someter una peticion cuanto antes para que sus familiares esten amaparados en contra
de una deportacion. Llame la oficina para una cita: 714-817-9089
IMMIGRATING TO THE UNITED STATES
TO BECOME A CITIZEN
Eligibility Information: Who May Apply to Become a Lawful Permanent Resident While in the United States?
Family Member
A. You must be the spouse, parent, unmarried
child under age 21, the unmarried son or daughter over age 21, the married son or daughter, or the brother or sister of a
United States citizen and have a visa petition approved in your behalf.
B. You must be the spouse or unmarried son
or daughter of any age of a lawful permanent resident and you have a family-based visa petition approved in your behalf.
Employment
You must be an alien who has an approved visa petition filed in your behalf by a United States
employer.
Who is Eligible for Employment Based Immigration?
There are five categories of employment based immigration:
First Preference (EB-1 priority workers): workers
with extraordinary ability, outstanding professors and researchers, and certain multinational executives
and managers.
Second Preference (EB-2 workers with advanced degrees or exceptional ability): workers who are members
of the professions holding advanced degrees or their equivalent and aliens who because of their exceptional ability in
the sciences, arts, or business will substantially benefit the national economy, cultural, or educational interests or welfare
of the United States.
Third Preference (EB-3 professionals, skilled workers, and other workers): workers
with at least two years of experience as skilled workers, professionals with a baccalaureate degree, and others with
less than two years experience, such as an unskilled worker who can perform labor for which qualified workers are not available
in the United States.
Fourth Preference (EB-4 special workers such as those in a religious occupation or vocation):
workers who, for at least two years before applying for admission to the United States, have been a member of a religious
denomination that has a non-profit religious organization in the United States, and who will be working in a religious vocation
or occupation at the request of the religious organization.
Fifth Preference (EB-5 Employment Creation) You can be
granted immigrant status in the United States for the purpose of engaging in a new commercial enterprise through an investment.
NON-IMMIGRANT CATEGORIES FOR TEMPORARY EMPLOYMENT
Employers
may apply for Non-immigrant Workers for the following types of workers.
H-1B Specialty Workers and Fashion Models
P-1 Athlete, Entertainment Groups
H-1C Registered Nurses: see www.medicalvisas.com
P-2 Artistic Exchange
H-2 Temporary Labor
P-3 Culturally Unique Artists
H-3 Alien Trainees
Q-1
International Cultural Exchange Program
L-1 Intracompany Transferee
TN Mexican Citizens under NAFTA (Canada is
represented below)
O-1 Aliens with Extraordinary Ability
There are different procedures
for the following categories:
E Treaty Trader or Investor
TN Canadian Citizens under NAFTA (Mexico is represented
above)
R-1 Religious Worker
