How to qualify for a religious worker visa?

Show Notes:

00:00 What is an the R-1 Religious Visa?

00:22 There’s a special visa for that. It’s called the R-1 Visa and this visa allowing people that are religious workers to come and work for a nonprofit organization and it has to be a 501(c) nonprofit registered organization. And the religious workers must have at least two years experienced prior to coming to work in the United States

01:05 So you can be religious worker teacher or a priest or somebody working in a synagogue or a rabbi. These are all occupations that qualify for the R-1.

01:45 The R-1 is given up to five years and you can proceed and apply for a green card using the I36 petition. It has to be a nonprofit organization, religious nonprofit, and you must have two years of religious experience in the same denomination before coming to the United States

02:16 It is highly encouraged that you to try to apply for those visas if you meet the requirements. If you have any questions, just post them in the comments below

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