EB-1A: the extraordinary ability green card
This is the Einstein visa. The EB-1A is the green card for people at the top of their field, and it is the only employment-based green card you can win entirely on your own: no employer, no job offer, no labor certification. The press calls it the Einstein visa, and the nickname is apt; the regulation's example of a qualifying award is the Nobel Prize, and the standard is sustained national or international acclaim, proven with the same family of evidence as the O-1 and judged on the whole record. For most countries the category is current, so an approved petition leads straight to permanent residence; for India and China the wait is set by the Visa Bulletin.
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