Special Religious Immigrant Visas

Programs that assist religious organizations in filing petitions for employment-based immigrant visas which allow admission, on a permanent basis, of aliens who, for at least two years before applying for admission, have been a member of a religious denomination that has a nonprofit religious organization in the United States and who will be working in a religious vocation or occupation at the request of the religious organization. To qualify for this visa, the individual must also have been carrying out such vocation or professional work for at least two years immediately prior to the filing of the petition.