First: Priority Workers: 28.6% of the worldwide employment-based preference level, plus any
numbers not required for fourth and fifth preferences.
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Second: Members of the Professions Holding Advanced Degrees or Persons of Exceptional Ability:
28.6% of the worldwide employment-based preference level, plus any numbers not required by
first preference.
Third: Skilled Workers, Professionals, and Other Workers: 28.6% of the worldwide level, plus any
numbers not required by first and second preferences, not more than 10,000 of which to "*Other
Workers".
Fourth: Certain Special Immigrants: 7.1% of the worldwide level.
Fifth: Employment Creation: 7.1% of the worldwide level, not less than 3,000 of which reserved
for investors in a targeted rural or high-unemployment area, and 3,000 set aside for investors in
regional centers by Sec. 610 of Pub. L. 102-395.