The four preference category special immigrants, including religious workers, Iraqi and Afghan translators, Iraqi nationals who have assisted the United States, and international organization employees.
Ministers and non-ministers in religious vocations and occupations may immigrate to or adjust status in the United States for the purpose of performing religious work in a full-time compensated position. Religious workers qualify for special immigrant status if they have been a member of a religious denomination that has a bona fide non-profit religious organization in the United States for at least two years immediately before the filing of a petition for this status with USCIS. They must seek to enter the United States to work in a full time, compensated position solely as a minister of that religious denomination; as a religious vocation either in a professional or nonprofessional capacity; as a religious occupation either in a professional or nonprofessional capacity; or at a bona fide non-profit religious organization in the United States. The religious worker must have been employed in one of the positions described above after the age of 14, either abroad or in lawful immigration status in the United States, continuously for at least two years immediately before the filing of a petition with USCIS. The prior religious work need not correspond precisely to the type of work to be performed.