|
Tourist / Business VISA |
| B1 |
Temporary visitor for business |
| B2 |
Temporary visitor for pleasure |
| B1/B2 |
Temporary visitor for business and pleasure |
|
Student / exchange visitors
VISA |
| F |
Academic or language study |
| M |
Nonacademic or vocational study |
| J |
Exchange programs, research or teaching
fellowships, medical studies, etc. |
|
Work VISA |
| H1A |
Registered nurses for temporary employment |
| H1B |
Persons in specialty occupations that
require a college or advanced degree; artists, entertainers, athletes
and fashion models of distinguished merit and ability (may include
persons assisting in their performances) |
| H2A |
Temporary or seasonal agricultural workers |
| H2B |
Persons filling temporary jobs that cannot
be filled by US citizens or residents |
| H3 |
Professional job trainees in an American company or in the US office of
a foreign company |
| I |
Representatives of foreign information
media, representatives of a foreign tourist bureau, or film crew
members holding professional journalism credentials and intending to
work on news or non-commercial documentaries |
| L |
Managers or executives of multinational
corporations, transferred to the company's US office, that have a
minimum of one years experience with the company |
| O |
Persons of sustained national or
international acclaim in the sciences, arts, education, business or
athletics, coming to the US to work or perform in their field of
achievement |
| P |
Entertainers and athletes coming for
specific competitions or performances, or who are participating in a
reciprocal exchange program between the US and their country. This also
includes those performing in culturally unique programs |
| Q |
Participants in an international cultural
exchange program for the purpose of explaining or sharing their
country's culture |
|
Treaty Trader / Treaty
Investor USA |
| E1 |
Visa for investors or traders
that carry out commercial business between the United States and their
home country, or that develop and direct the activities of a company in
which they have invested substantial capital, provided that both
countries have signed a commerce and navigation treaty, as France has
with the United States. |
| E2 |
|
Diplomatic
VISA |
| A1 |
Individual traveling to the USA
in the name of his or her national government to engage solely in
official activities for that government |
| A2 |
|
International
Organizations |
|
(To qualify for a G visa
the individual concerned must be entering the United States in
pursuance of official duties) |
| G1 |
Members of a permanent mission of a
recognized government to an international organization |
| G2 |
Representatives of a recognized government
traveling to the United States temporarily to attend meetings of a
designated international organization |
| G3 |
Representatives of non-recognized or
non-member governments |
| G4 |
Individual personnel who are proceeding to
the United States to take up an appointment at a designated
international organization, including the United Nations |
|
NATO |
| NATO-1 |
Person who is seeking admission
to the United States under the applicable provision of the Agreement on
the Status of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, National
Representatives and International Staff, or is a member of the
immediate family of an alien classified NATO-1 through NATO-5 |
| NATO-2 |
| NATO-3 |
| NATO-4 |
| NATO-5 |
|
VISA
Journalist Media |
|
I |
Representative of foreign press, radio,
film or other information media. This includes aliens whose activities
are essential to the foreign information media function; for example,
media reporters, media film crews, video tape editors, and persons in
similar occupations |
|
Religious
Occupations |
|
R |
Member of a religious denomination having a
bona fide nonprofit, religious organization in the United States |
|
Crew Members
In Transit |
| C1/D |
Pilots, air hostesses, stewards, seamen or
employees on board a ship whose services are required for normal
operation, or crew members traveling to the United States as passengers
to join vessel or aircraft |
