These individuals must work for U.S. nonprofit, religious organizations or at nonprofit, religious organizations affiliated with qualified religious denominations. The two non-minister categories, religious professionals and other religious workers, are subject to, and further limited to, not more than 5,000 of the annual special immigrant admissions. Historically, this annual limit has not been reached since July 1998.
This category is also for Special Immigrant Juveniles (SIJ) to apply for a green card.