High-impact professionals—scientists, founders, artists, executives, and physicians—often discover that the most strategic route to a U.S. Green Card isn’t a single lane but a set of interlocking pathways. The employment-based options of EB-1 (extraordinary ability, outstanding professors/researchers, and multinational managers), O-1 (temporary extraordinary ability), and NIW (the EB-2 National Interest Waiver) reward demonstrable influence, innovation,…