EB-1 Visas: The EB-1 visa offers a direct path to a green card for individuals with extraordinary ability, outstanding professors/researchers, or multinational executives, allowing permanent residence without requiring labor certification.
EB-2 Visas: The EB-2 visa is for professionals with advanced degrees or exceptional ability and typically requires a job offer and labor certification, leading to permanent residency.
National Interest Waivers (NIW): The NIW allows EB-2 applicants to bypass the job offer and labor certification when their work benefits the United States as a whole, providing a more flexible route to a green card.

O-1 Visas: The O-1 visa provides temporary work authorization for individuals who can demonstrate extraordinary ability or achievement in their field, allowing them to work in the U.S. for specific employers or projects.
E-2 Treaty Investor Visas: The E-2 visa allows individuals from qualifying treaty countries to invest in and actively manage a U.S. business, with renewable status as long as the business operates.
L-1 Intracompany Transfer Visas: The L-1 visa enables multinational companies to transfer executives, managers, or employees with specialized knowledge to a U.S. branch or affiliate, offering a pathway to permanent residency for certain executives and managers.

Adjustment of Status: Adjustment of Status is the process that allows eligible individuals in the U.S. to apply for lawful permanent resident status (a green card) without needing to return to their home country for consular processing.
Fiance Visas: US citizens are often able to apply for a temporary visa (often called a K visa) that allows a foreign national fiance to enter the US for a temporary period in order to marry in the US. The spouse may then file for Adjustment of Status in the US.

Removal Defense: Removal defense involves representing individuals in immigration court to challenge deportation and present legal grounds—such as asylum, cancellation of removal, or waivers—to remain lawfully in the United States.
BIA Appeals: A BIA Appeal involves challenging an immigration judge’s decision before the Board of Immigration Appeals, seeking to correct legal errors and secure a more favorable outcome.

Affirmative Asylum: This type of asylum can be filed with the USCIS Asylum office. Applicant must demonstrate they have been, or likely will be, persecuted in their home country.
Defensive Asylum: For individuals in Immigration Court already, an Immigration Judge can determine whether a candidate is worthy of asylum. Applicants in Immigration Court can also request similar forms of relief known as Withholding of Removal or protection under the Convention Against Torture.

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