EB-1C is an employment-based, first-preference immigration classification for managers and executives. It allows multinational companies to transfer their top-level employees to the U.S. as permanent residents to work at the employer’s U.S. parent, branch, subsidiary or affiliate.​

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The company must be a U.S. employer with a qualifying relationship with a foreign company, such as a parent company, branch, subsidiary, or affiliate, and it needs to have been doing business in the U.S. for at least one year prior to filing. The employee beneficiary must have been employed in an executive or managerial capacity for the foreign company for at least 1 year in the past 3 years before filing the petition, and will be employed in the U.S. in an executive or managerial position.