{"id":531,"date":"2012-08-22T19:27:43","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T01:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=531"},"modified":"2012-08-22T19:27:43","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T01:27:43","slug":"h1b-visa-for-a-pastor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=531","title":{"rendered":"H1B Visa for a Pastor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>My Church applied my H1B for me as a Pastor. The Nebraska center just denied because they say that a Bachelor&#8217;s degree is not required for a Pastor. Is that true?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>USCIS believes that there is a significant amount of fraud in religious worker visas and immigration has taken a hard line on these types of applications. That being said, it is quite common for a pastor position to require a BA or even an MDiv. Your denomination should have regulations for the requirements for pastor type positions and it shouldn&#8217;t be too difficult to evidence the requirements. Additionally, you likely qualify for an R1 visa and I recommend you contact my office to see if we can help you with an R1 or an appeal of you H1B denial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Church applied my H1B for me as a Pastor. The Nebraska center just denied because they say that a Bachelor&#8217;s degree is not required for a Pastor. Is that true? USCIS believes that there is a significant amount of fraud in religious worker visas and immigration has taken a hard line on these types &#8230; <a title=\"H1B Visa for a Pastor\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=531\" aria-label=\"Read more about H1B Visa for a Pastor\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,11],"tags":[173,165],"class_list":["post-531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-h-1b-visa","category-r-1-visa","tag-h-1b-visa","tag-r-1-visa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":532,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions\/532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}