Employment-Based Immigration
Permanent residence through employment, for professionals and the companies that sponsor them.
For a professional working in the United States on a temporary visa, the path to a green card usually runs through an employer's sponsorship: a labor certification, an immigrant petition, and adjustment of status or consular processing. Each step has its own rules, waiting periods, and pitfalls, and the timeline can span years. KPLAN Law Group plans the whole path at the outset so that the temporary status is maintained and the permanent case moves as quickly as the law allows.
For individuals with exceptional records, including researchers, executives, artists, and entrepreneurs, we evaluate self-petition routes such as the EB-1A extraordinary ability category and the EB-2 National Interest Waiver, which do not require a sponsoring employer or labor certification.
Because a green card also makes a person a U.S. tax resident on worldwide income, we coordinate the immigration timeline with pre-immigration tax planning through our tax practice. This is a step many applicants discover too late.
How we help
- PERM labor certification and EB-2 / EB-3 immigrant petitions
- EB-1A extraordinary ability and EB-1B outstanding researcher petitions
- EB-1C multinational manager and executive green cards
- EB-2 National Interest Waiver self-petitions
- Adjustment of status and consular processing
- Pre-green-card tax residency planning