You may be eligible for an employment-based, fourth preference (EB-4) visa if you are a special immigrant. The following special immigrants are eligible for the fourth preference visa:

·         Religious workers;

·         Special Immigrant Juveniles;

·         Certain broadcasters;

·         Certain retired officers or employees of a G-4 international organization or NATO-6 civilian employees and their family members;

·         Certain employees of the U.S. government who are abroad and their family members;

·         Members of the U.S. armed forces;

·         Panama Canal Company or Canal Zone government employees;

·         Certain physicians licensed and practicing medicine in a U.S. state as of Jan. 9, 1978; and,

·         Noncitizens who have supplied information concerning a criminal organization or enterprise or a terrorist organization, enterprise, or operation (S nonimmigrants).