Employment Based First Preference (EB1) or Priority Workers  

Multinational Executive or Manager
Employer required but Labor Certification not required

This immigrant visa category is designed to facilitate international transfer of executive or managerial personnel within multinational companies.

The E13 immigrant visa category is designed to facilitate international transfer of executive or managerial personnel within multinational companies. The transfers can be between different branches of the same company, or between different companies with one of the following types of relationship:  1) parent-subsidiary; 2) home office-branch office; and (3) affiliate-affiliate.

In this category, the employee must have worked in either a managerial or executive capacity, for the related company abroad, for at least a one-year period in the three years preceding the transfer.

The employee should be coming to the United States company to function in an executive or managerial capacity. The employee may already be in the United States in a non-immigrant visa status such as the L-1A visa or one of the E visa classifications.

The U.S. company must show that it is either the parent, subsidiary, affiliate, or branch office of the company abroad and the relationship between the U.S. and overseas operations must be documented and proved.