His category was EB-1 "Alien with extraordinary ability." I tried to request the labor certificate from the Department of Labor, but they said that they don't keep records that far back. We could certainly dig up the old records to show that he was paid well back then; I'm afraid it would be a long stretch. What type of finagling can we do at this point? If worst comes to worst, I would just wait for my wife to get her green card and then sponsor me, This would be a 6 years process since I was born in China, and it seems there is a long waiting queue for China. Going down this path I believe I would have to file a 601A waiver since I entered legally but overstayed. Have a lot of people gone through this route and successfully obtained the waiver?