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Employment First Preference

By Jennifer McFadyen, About.com

Definition: A category used in employment-based immigration to identify priority workers including aliens with extraordinary abilities in the sciences, arts, education, business, or athletics; outstanding professors and researchers, and certain multinational executives and managers.
Also Known As: EB-1 Visa

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