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There are two business immigration categories: immigrant (permanent) and nonimmigrant (temporary). There are five preference levels within the employment-based immigration categories. The first preference is priority workers, second preference are professionals, third preference are skilled and unskilled workers, fourth preference are religious workers, and the fifth preference are immigrant investors.

If your intent is to obtain a green card and live the in the US permanently, at some point you will need to get onto the immigrant visa track so that you can progress from visa holder to green card holder and eventually citizenship, if you wish. For example, a TN visa and an H1-B visa are similar, but they are different in one important way, the TN visa does not lead to permanent residency, whereas the H1-B can.

Table 3 illustrates whether or not your status would be considered a nonresident alien or resident alien.