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USCIS calls it a visa in the first sentence: https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/permanent-workers/employment-based-immigration-first-preference

by js2 3y ago

USCIS calls it a visa in the first sentence: https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/permanent-workers/employment-based-immigration-first-preference-eb-1 https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/permanent... You may be eligible for an employment-based, first-preference visa if you are a noncitizen of extraordinary ability, are an outstanding professor or researcher, or are a certain multinational executive or manager.

paxys 3y ago
It wouldn't be the first government website with confusing wording. They call it visa, but practically "EB-1 visa" = green card. There's no intermediate stage between the two. There's no sticker on your passport that says EB-1. You can't use your EB-1 status to enter the country or work or anything else. EB-1 simply means that you jump to the front of the line to get a green card.
- x86x87 3y ago
  even more. there is no difference in the process (as far as how the process works, not time spent waiting) between EB1, EB2, EB3. Also, calling it a visa is misleading. The Green Card gives you the right to reside here permanently and you don't need any visa once you have it. So it's not a visa, and even if it was a visa it would be the Green Card that would be called out, not the bucket through which you get it.
x86x87 3y ago
I don't want to fight in the semantics dome, but they do not. > You may be eligible for an employment-based, first-preference visa if you are a noncitizen of extraordinary ability, are an outstanding professor or researcher, or are a certain multinational executive or manager. the employment-based, first-preference visa they are talking about is the green card. they were also lazy and did not update the wording
elevatedastalt 3y ago
There is a difference between what USCIS calls a Visa and what the rest of the world actually means when they say a Visa. For eg. Green Cards (== aka Permanent Residency, which no one in their sane minds calls a Visa), are actually issued against what USCIS calls a "visa number". So OP is correct that O-1 is a visa (as that word is understood generally in the world), and EB-1A is a category of Employment Based Permanent Residence filing.

by js2 3y ago

paxys 3y ago

It wouldn't be the first government website with confusing wording. They call it visa, but practically "EB-1 visa" = green card. There's no intermediate stage between the two. There's no sticker on your passport that says EB-1. You can't use your EB-1 status to enter the country or work or anything else. EB-1 simply means that you jump to the front of the line to get a green card.

x86x87 3y ago
even more. there is no difference in the process (as far as how the process works, not time spent waiting) between EB1, EB2, EB3. Also, calling it a visa is misleading. The Green Card gives you the right to reside here permanently and you don't need any visa once you have it. So it's not a visa, and even if it was a visa it would be the Green Card that would be called out, not the bucket through which you get it.

x86x87 3y ago

I don't want to fight in the semantics dome, but they do not. > You may be eligible for an employment-based, first-preference visa if you are a noncitizen of extraordinary ability, are an outstanding professor or researcher, or are a certain multinational executive or manager. the employment-based, first-preference visa they are talking about is the green card. they were also lazy and did not update the wording

elevatedastalt 3y ago

There is a difference between what USCIS calls a Visa and what the rest of the world actually means when they say a Visa. For eg. Green Cards (== aka Permanent Residency, which no one in their sane minds calls a Visa), are actually issued against what USCIS calls a "visa number". So OP is correct that O-1 is a visa (as that word is understood generally in the world), and EB-1A is a category of Employment Based Permanent Residence filing.