Extraordinary Ability
How Valentini Law Offices Can Benefit You: Having the honor to represent internationally-renowned entertainers and inventors, we have the knowhow of taking our clients through the process stress-and-worryfree, securing their immigration benefits as efficiently as possible. We tackle tedious immigration work behind the scenes, allowing our clients to focus on their artistic endeavors.
O-1 Visa
The O-1 is a non-immigrant visas available to aliens of extraordinary ability in the fields of art, science, education, business or athletics. O-1 visa holders enter the US to perform work that requires such extraordinary ability. To be eligible for O-1 visa, an alien must have achieved a level of expertise that puts him among the small percentage of individuals who have risen to the very top in the alien’s field. A qualified alien can bring his dependents (spouse and children) to the US. An alien on O-1 visa and his dependents can travel outside the US and return. Aliens on O-1 visas do not have to maintain residency in a foreign country and are allowed to have “double intent”. The advantages of O-1 visa is that it may be extended indefinitely and it is not subject to a quota, which is the case with some other visas, namely H-1b.
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EB-1 Petitions for Aliens of Extraordinary Ability, Professors and Researchers (Priority Workers Petitions)
The EB-1 is an immigrant visa (green card) available for aliens of extraordinary ability in science, art, business, athletics, education, teaching and research who achieved national or international acclaim in their field. A qualified alien does not need a US employer to sponsor him for this type of green card, therefore, no labor certification is required. Additionally, an alien applying for EB-1 green card should prove that he intends to work in the field of his extraordinary ability and that he had an ability to make a significant contribution to benefit the US.