Business Based Non-Immigrant Visas
Business Immigration Visas
Business Immigration Visas enable people to come to the U.S. to live and work on a temporary basis. Visa holders are given a certain amount of time to work, and this period of time can usually be extended (although not always indefinitely). This category is indeed an alphabet soup!!
Credo Law, LLC assists clients in obtaining the following types of Visas:
- E-2 treaty investor visa. Holders will develop and direct the operations of an enterprise in which they have invested or are actively-investing a substantial amount of capital.
Our office also assists our clients to form the required business structure which the E-2 investor will use to conduct his business. - H-1B Visa for professionals who hold a bachelor’s degree in a discipline related to the employment sought.
- H-1A Visa for persons who are coming to the United States to perform temporary or seasonal work. Agricultural workers and workers in the Hospitality (hotels and resorts) industry are the most usual beneficiaries of this visa type.
- H-2B Visa is for athletes and members of the performing arts who have not yet achieved international fame; it is also available to skilled workers in the crafts and trades for whom the employer obtains a certification that no US workers exist.
- H-3 Visa for persons coming to the US to receive training in fields that are not graduate education or training e.g. a job-related training. Also included are “Special Exchange Visitors” – foreign-born persons who are coming to the US to obtain practical training in the education of children who have physical, mental or emotional disabilities. Only 50 of such visas are issued every year.
- I Visa for representatives of foreign press, radio, film or other foreign information media, as well as employees of independent production companies coming to work in their professions. Such employees should hold credentials of a professional journalistic organization.
The visa may still be given in the absence of credentials if a credentialing authority does not exist in the journalist’s sending country. - L Visa. The intra-company transferee visa. A foreign company which has a US subsidiary or which is the subsidiary of a US company may transfer a foreign-born/foreign-based worker to work for it in the US as an Executive Manager or employee.
Branch office relationships will also permit the filing of an L visa petition.
There are also Start-up and Blanket versions of this Visa type. - O Visa for persons with extraordinary ability in the arts, athletics, sciences, education, business or the motion-picture industry may live and work in the US with the O Visa. Extraordinary means that a person has reached the top in his/her field of endeavour.
- P Visa for artists, entertainers and athletes who have an internationally-recognized level of performance.
- Q Visa for persons who will take part in an international cultural exchange program which is designed to provide practical training,
employment and sharing of the participant’s native culture. The visa applicant must be at least
18 years old. - R Visa for members of a religious denomination to come to the US to work temporarily for the religious organization as religious ministers or in a religious vocation for the religious organization.
- TN Visa was created under a free trade agreement between Canada, the US and Mexico. It allows members of professional occupation (e.g. accountants, engineers, lawyers, teachers, pharmacists, scientists) to work in the US. They are granted for three years and may be renewed indefinitely.