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Who Gets Permanent Work Visas in America?
When it comes to getting a visa approved, it helps if you work in the finance sector.
In 2012 and 2013, the United States considered 3,945 permanent work-related visa applications for foreign employees in New York City. Want to guess what field the majority of these people specialized in?
If you said finance, then ding ding ding! that is correct. Roughly a quarter of visa applications related to folks in the financial industry – and this was out of more than 300 fields for which employers or employee agents applied. Morgan Stanley topped the list with about 100 applications, followed by Credit Suisse Securities, Barclays, American Express, and Goldman Sachs. It's enough to make a body all teary-eyed knowing that the American dream is alive and kicking, at least on Wall Street.