contracts – protecting rights, minimizing risk, and negotiating fair terms in the U.S. and globally.
Your achievements got you here. Now make the United States your permanent base. Working with an EB-1 green card lawyer who understands immigration law and the entertainment, sports, and startup worlds helps you present your record the way USCIS reviews it. At ChaseLawyers®, we help founders, performers, creators, and athletes turn a career of acclaim into a clear, well-documented petition for U.S. permanent residence.
The EB-1 is the first-preference employment-based green card category, and it has three lanes. EB-1A (extraordinary ability) lets you self-petition on Form I-140 – no job offer, no employer sponsor, and no labor certification. EB-1B covers outstanding professors and researchers. EB-1C covers multinational managers and executives joining a related U.S. company. Our Miami and New York immigration attorneys help you choose the right lane, build the evidence, and guide you and your family from petition to green card.
contracts — protecting artists, producers, and their rights across the U.S. and globally.
What Do We Offer You?
EB-1 Green Card Legal Services
EB-1 Eligibility & Strategy – Choose the Right Path
Extraordinary talent deserves a clear plan. We help you:
- Assess whether EB-1A, EB-1C, or a first step such as an O-1 visa fits your profile and goals.
- Measure your record against the EB-1A standard: a one-time major, internationally recognized award or at least 3 of the 10 regulatory criteria.
- Check the Visa Bulletin for your country of chargeability and whether concurrent I-485 filing may be possible.
- Spot evidence gaps early and build a practical plan to close them.
Our team helps you:
- Organize press, awards, rankings, contracts, streams, box office, and revenue data into criterion-by-criterion exhibits.
- Gather detailed recommendation letters from independent authorities who know your work.
- Present comparable evidence when a standard criterion doesn’t readily apply to your profession.
- Draft a persuasive legal brief showing you will continue working in your field in the United States.
From I-140 Approval to Green Card – Bring Your Family Along
Approval is a milestone, not the finish line. Our post-approval support includes:
- Filing Form I-485 to adjust status in the U.S. or coordinating consular processing abroad.
- Including your spouse and unmarried children under 21 as derivative beneficiaries.
- Requesting work and travel authorization (EAD and Advance Parole) while your I-485 is pending, when eligible.
- Preparing you for interviews and responding to any Request for Evidence (RFE) or Notice of Intent to Deny (NOID).
How It Works
How We Work – Your EB-1 Green Card Process, Step by Step
Share your career story, goals, and immigration history. We give you an honest first read on your EB-1 options and the evidence you may need.
We choose the right category, weigh premium processing and concurrent filing, and align timing with your Visa Bulletin position, travel, and work commitments.
We collect and verify awards, media coverage, contracts, royalties, streams, sponsorships, and revenue data, and line up strong recommendation letters.
We file a complete, well-organized petition, monitor your case, and prepare thorough responses if USCIS asks for more information.
We guide adjustment of status or consular processing, then advise on travel, re-entry permits for long trips abroad, and future citizenship planning.
Artists, Entertainers & Athletes
Touring and recording artists, producers, directors, designers, broadcasters, and professional or Olympic-level athletes. We turn your press, awards, charts, rankings, and contracts into organized EB-1A evidence.
Founders, CEOs & Entrepreneurs
Company founders and executives with measurable impact – funding, revenue, users, patents, or media coverage. We build EB-1A cases based on individual acclaim or, if you have managed a related company abroad, EB-1C multinational executive cases.
Sports & Entertainment Executives and Agents
Promoters, league executives, general managers, showrunners, A&R executives, and agents with verifiable industry impact – positioned under EB-1A or EB-1C depending on your role and company structure.
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FAQ
EB-1 Green Card FAQs
Get clear answers to the questions founders, entertainers, and athletes ask most about EB-1 eligibility, evidence, and the path to a green card.
The EB-1 is the first-preference employment-based immigrant category. It includes EB-1A for individuals with extraordinary ability in the arts, sciences, education, business, or athletics; EB-1B for outstanding professors and researchers; and EB-1C for certain multinational managers and executives. None of the three requires PERM labor certification, and EB-1A does not require an employer at all.
You can qualify with a one-time achievement, such as a major internationally recognized award, or with evidence meeting at least 3 of 10 regulatory criteria. These include lesser prizes, selective memberships, media coverage about you, judging others’ work, major original contributions, scholarly articles, exhibitions or showcases, leading or critical roles, high pay, and commercial success in the performing arts.
Yes, under EB-1A. You can file Form I-140 on your own behalf without a job offer or employer sponsor. You still need to show sustained national or international acclaim and that you intend to continue working in your field in the United States. EB-1B and EB-1C petitions, by contrast, must be filed by a U.S. employer.
An O-1 is a temporary work visa that a U.S. employer or agent must petition for, while EB-1A is a green card you can self-petition. The evidence often overlaps, but EB-1A requires sustained acclaim placing you among the small percentage at the very top of your field – a higher bar than the O-1B “distinction” standard for the arts.
Many O-1 holders do. Your O-1 record – press, awards, critical roles, and contracts – is often a strong starting point. However, an O-1 approval does not by itself mean USCIS will approve an EB-1A petition, because the green card review takes a fresh look at your evidence. We review what has changed and strengthen the record before filing.
Not for EB-1A. EB-1C requires a U.S. employer offering a managerial or executive role, generally at least one year of qualifying managerial or executive employment abroad with a related company within the preceding three years, and a U.S. employer that has been doing business for at least one year. PERM labor certification isn’t required for any EB-1 category.
Timing varies. It depends on USCIS workloads, whether you request premium processing for the I-140, any Requests for Evidence, and visa availability in the monthly Visa Bulletin for your country of chargeability. We don’t quote fixed timelines, but we review current USCIS information and the Visa Bulletin with you before filing so you can plan ahead.
Yes. Your spouse and unmarried children under 21 can generally qualify as derivative beneficiaries of your EB-1 petition. They may adjust status in the U.S. alongside you or complete consular processing abroad. Once they receive green cards, they can live, work, and study in the United States, and we coordinate their filings with yours.
If you file Form I-485, you can generally apply for an Employment Authorization Document and an Advance Parole travel document at the same time. Traveling abroad without Advance Parole may be treated as abandoning your application, although certain H-1B and L-1 holders can travel on valid visas. We review your situation before any trip.
Common problems include thin or unverified press and awards, generic recommendation letters, evidence of past success without proof of current work in the field, and numbers that don’t match across contracts, tax records, and media. Claiming too many weak criteria can also dilute a strong case. We audit your record before filing to address these issues.