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EB3 VisaThe EB-3 unskilled visa for Bangladeshis: what the government's own numbers show
258 Bangladeshis received an EB-3 unskilled visa across four years. Pulled from the State Department and DOL source files directly.
Written from the source files
Each of these was researched from named government documents. The sources are listed at the foot of every one, with links, so you can check them.
What EB-3 jobs pay: the real figures, from the government file
Every PERM case carries a government-set wage floor. Housekeeping runs $18,574 a year, janitorial $23,005.
3 sourcesEB3 VisaWhat jobs EB-3 actually covers, counted across 1,612 Bangladeshi cases
The law names no list of jobs. But the DOL file lets you count what is really being filed. Cleaning alone accounts for 330.
3 sourcesEB3 VisaEB-3 or B-3? Start with this: there is no B-3 visa
The State Department's full directory of visa categories lists two B classes, B-1 and B-2. There is no B-3.
5 sourcesEB3 VisaWhere EB-3 jobs actually come from, and how to check one yourself
Whether a company has really sponsored Bangladeshis is searchable by name in the public DOL file. Here is how.
4 sourcesEB3 VisaWhat an EB-3 actually costs, and who the law says pays it
Add up the published government fees and a worker's lawful share is a few thousand dollars. The question is what the rest of 20 lakh buys.
4 sourcesEB3 VisaEB-3 agencies: whose name is on the file, and what happened to their cases
463 of the 1,612 Bangladeshi PERM cases went through one firm, denied at 27.9%. Another ran 58.6%. Another ran 1.1%.
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