정확한 숫자를 지난 9월 비자블러틴에서 퍼왔습니다.
2008년엔 162,704의 취업이민 쿼타가 있었고… 그중 3순위에 배정된건 46,500 정도네요. 거기다 1순위와 2순위에서 남은것도 쓸수있구요.
The numerical limits for FY-2008 are as follows:
Worldwide Family-sponsored preference limit: 226,000
Worldwide Employment-based preference limit: 162,704
EMPLOYMENT-BASED PREFERENCES
First: Priority Workers: 28.6% of the worldwide employment-based preference level, plus any numbers not required for fourth and fifth preferences.
Second: Members of the Professions Holding Advanced Degrees or Persons of Exceptional Ability: 28.6% of the worldwide employment-based preference
level, plus any numbers not required by first preference.
Third: Skilled Workers, Professionals, and Other Workers: 28.6% of the worldwide level, plus any numbers not required by first and second preferences, not more than 10,000 of which to “Other Workers”.
Fourth: Certain Special Immigrants: 7.1% of the worldwide level.
Fifth: Employment Creation: 7.1% of the worldwide level, not less than 3,000 of which reserved for investors in a targeted rural or high-unemployment area, and 3,000 set aside for investors in regional centers by Sec. 610 of P.L. 102-395.