EB-4 Special Immigrants (Back)

• This fourth employment-based path to immigrant status/permanent residency is generally used by foreign religious workers. To qualify as an EB-4
   special immigrant religious worker, you must be a member of a religious denomination that has a non-profit religious organization in the United
   States. You must have been a member of this religious denomination for at least two years before applying for admission to the United States.
   You must be entering the United States to work:

       • As a minister or priest of the religious denomination;
       • In a professional capacity in a religious vocation or occupation for the religious organization (a professional capacity means that a U.S.
          baccalaureate degree or foreign equivalent is required to do this job); or
       • In a religious vocation or occupation for the religious organization or its nonprofit affiliate. (A religious “vocation” means a calling or devotion
          to religious life. Taking vows can prove that you have a calling to religious life. A religious “occupation” is an activity devoted to traditional
          religious functions. Examples of religious occupations include, but are not limited to, cantors, missionaries, and religious instructors.)

You must have been performing this religious work for the past two years.