Your Tenure Track to a Green Card: Immigration Pathways for Academics & Scholars

​Those who work in higher education face a distinct set of challenges: grant cycles, institutional sponsorship, tenure timelines, and the long waits built into many employment-based green card categories. But there are immigration pathways specifically well-suited to research careers, and understanding them early gives you significantly more control over how your immigration journey unfolds alongside your academic one.

​In this session, Manifest immigration attorney Elizabeth Mavec walks through the Green Card pathways most relevant to academics and researchers (including the EB-1A, EB-1B, and EB-2 NIW categories), and how to think about which one fits your career stage and institutional situation.

​We'll cover:

• ​How USCIS evaluates research careers under extraordinary ability and national interest standards

• ​How publications, citations, grants, peer review, and academic appointments factor into each pathway

• ​How to think about self-petition and employer-sponsored options given your institutional context

• ​How funding gaps, postdoc transitions, and contract renewals affect your immigration timeline

• ​What a realistic Green Card roadmap looks like at different stages of an academic career

• ​Common mistakes researchers and scholars make when navigating immigration without a long-term plan

​Whether you're a postdoc thinking ahead or a faculty member exploring your options, this session will give you a clear picture of the road ahead.

Register now to secure your spot, and bring your questions for our Live Q&A segment at the end.