EB-4 Religious Workers

List of primary avenues to U.S. Permanent Residency (“Green Card” status)

What this page does. Permanent residence, the status commonly called a green card, can be reached by more than a dozen separate legal routes. Each has its own eligibility rules, its own petition or application, and its own place in the annual numerical limits. This page maps those routes so that the relevant one can be identified quickly. Every entry is an outline only; the linked pages carry the detail.

EB-4: Religious Workers

If you serve a religious denomination that has a nonprofit religious organization in the United States, the EB-4 special immigrant religious worker category may offer you a path to permanent residence. It is one of the few employment-based green card routes that requires no labor certification, so your organization does not need to test the U.S. labor market or obtain Department of Labor approval before petitioning for you.