An international entrepreneur’s options for permanent residence are limited. The United States does not have a “start-up” visa. For many entrepreneurs, particularly those facing long backlogs in other immigrant visa categories, an “extraordinary ability” petition may be the only available path to a green card. By David Wilks, Brooke Ireland & Stephen Yale-Loehr

Executives and managers have a unique path to permanent residence in the employment-based first preference green card category (EB-1C). We sought to find examples of how foreign nationals are faring in obtaining green cards through EB-1C. To that end, we found four non-precedent decisions issued by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ Administrative Appeals Office Read more about Unclearly Executive or Managerial: A Review of Recent Nonprecedent EB-1C AAO Decisions[…]