Hundreds of Brazilians with skills in various areas, such as Nascimento, are benefiting from the EB2-NIW visa, which the US government grants to highly qualified individuals or those with exceptional skills considered to be of national interest to the country. This type of visa does not require the applicant to have a job offer before arriving in the US.
The demand for the EB2-NIW – in practice a direct route to the so-called Green Card, the permanent residence document in the US – has grown substantially in the last two years, and today Brazil is already the fourth country in terms of number of applications, behind India, China and South Korea.
