How can an employer sponsor a foreign worker?
Employers can sponsor foreign workers for full-time, permanent employment in the US. This means that the foreign workers can immigrate to the US for the job and live here permanently. Employers can sponsor only the following types of workers: • Priority workers with extraordinary ability in sciences, arts, education, business or athletics; outstanding professors and researchers; or multinational executives and managers • Professionals with advanced degrees (at least a bachelor’s degree) or those with exceptional ability in the sciences, arts or business • Skilled workers capable of performing a job requiring at least two years of training or experience • Professionals holding at least a bachelors’ degree • Other workers capable of performing jobs requiring less than two years of experience or training • Special immigrants, including religious workers, government employees, physicians and others In order to sponsor one of these types of employees, the employer may have to request labor