Can You Have Multiple Sponsors for an EB-3 Visa?

Tanya Freedman, CEO Connetics USA Nursing Agency: Are you allowed to get separate EB-3 sponsorships from different hospitals at the same time? This is a bit of a tricky question.

Denise Gavica Perez, Immigration Lawyer: Well, you can be sponsored by multiple employers. But ultimately, you have to have the intent of joining one, you have to have the intent of working with them full time and permanently, and they have to have the intent of hiring you permanently. So if you are at the point of the process where you have multiple petitions approved, you have to select one because of the fact that intense is a key issue.

When it comes to permanent residency, you have to be once you attend your interview, at the time of the interview, you're telling a US government official that you intend to join Hospital, a specifically not multiple hospitals, but bottom line, you could have multiple sponsors, and then select from the sponsors as to which one you would like to join permanently.

Tanya: Okay, and, you know, grace, and the one thing that I would just add having been in recruitment for many, many years and done all through international nurses, for many years, I think it's also important, you know, there's obviously the technical piece of it, as Denise has just explained to you. But I think they also is the ethical part of it, because it's very costly for an employer to spend money on your EB-3 green card. And as Denise said, it's about intention.

So I would just, you know, encourage you to only go with your make your decision, ask questions, we're going to talk a little bit about that further in the show, but really intend to, to go into it in the same way as you would to any, any relationship or it's like a marriage. You know, if if the employer is paying for your green card, you want to show them that you are just as committed and dedicated and that you are solely going to be interested in them. So I think that's what I would just add from a recruitment perspective.