Working Visas
This category of Visas allows for it's recipients to apply for citizenship after they hold it for 5 years
Permanent Employment Visas
This United States hockey player scored the winning goal in the 2026 Milan Winter Olympics
Jack Hughes
In 2024, this administration expanded employment based Visa opportunities for DACA and Dreamers
The Biden Administration
This country saw many hockey players defect, before the fall of it's communist regime in 1991
The Soviet Union/USSR
This Visa is reserved for foreign professionals in “specialty occupations”
H-1B
In 1963, he became the first Cuban to defect from Cuba to play Major League Baseball
Rogelio Álvarez
This year saw the first federal restrictions on immigration to the United States
1875
To this day, baseball players must defect from this country if they wish to play in the MLB
Cuba
These two preference categories only allow for 7.1% of acceptants each year
4 or 5
In 1988, He became the 1st NHL player to defect from the Soviet Union, Joining the Buffalo Sabres
Alexander Mogilny
This year saw the end to many automatic extensions for many employment authorization documents, and shortened the validity period of many of these documents
2025
In 1862, Congress passed a law banning American ships from transporting immigrants from this country to the USA
China
This Visa category only allows for 66,000 acceptances each year
H-2B
In 1989 he became the first of the infamous Russian Five to defect from the USSR in order to play for the Detroit Red Wings
Sergei Fedorov
In 1996, this U.S. President passed his welfare reforms that brought the end of many forms of cash and medical assistance for immigrants
Bill Clinton
In 1905 these two countries saw the growth of organized labor groups, protesting the influx of their citizens in the work force
Japan & Korea
Professionals with advanced degrees or exceptional abilities are giving this percentage of working Visa acceptances each year
28.6%
This Soviet hockey player faked terminal cancer in order to leave the recently collapsed Soviet Union for the USA
Vladimir Konstantinov
This was the first year that the United States congress passed laws restricting immigration
1862
Citizens of this country were temporarily granted special status by the Biden administration in 2023
Venezuela