Work Visa

• Business Visitor visa can be for a short duration say 6 months and it is called as B1 visa.It is suitable for following categories of people:
  
• Participants to attend scientific, educational, professional, business, or religious conventions
  
• Persons to work on specific projects in the U.S. and paid by a foreign employer
  
• Business professionals to participate in commercial transactions (which do not involve gainful employment) such as negotiating contracts and consulting with business associates
  
• Persons to undertake independent studies such as feasibility studies, market research or any such activity
  
• Persons to attend professional or business conferences, workshops, or seminars
  
• Business professionals to explore possibilities to set up a subsidiary of a foreign corporation, or to make investments
  
• Personal or domestic servants to come to the U.S. with a U.S. citizen or nonimmigrant employer on B, E, F, H, I, J, L, M, O, P, R, or TN status
  
• Technical personnel to install or service equipment pursuant to a contract of sale, or to provide after sales service
  
• Business professionals to attend meetings as a member of the Board of Directors of a U.S. corporation
  
• Persons to observe business, professional, or vocational activity as long as it does not involve any hands-on activity
  
• Professional athletes to compete for tournament money and not for a salary
  
• Professionals to conduct business consultations with business associates in the U.S.
  
• Purchasing agents of a foreign employer to come to the U.S. to procure goods, components, or raw materials for use outside the U.S.
  
• Foreign business persons coming to the U.S. in conjunction with Litigation
  
• Persons rendering professional services in the U.S. that would otherwise qualify them for an H-1B visa, but who are paid for those services by a source outside the U.S.
  
• Persons employed outside the U.S. who are paid from abroad, and who come to the U.S. to undertake an established training program that would qualify them for an H-3 visa
  
• Employees of foreign airlines who are engaged in productive employment in the U.S. and paid in the U.S. who are not eligible for E-1 treaty trader status
  
• Other persons such as for bona fide religious missionaries and crew members on yachts
  
• Special situations involving Canadians and Mexicans such as Canadian truck drivers who are paid by either Canadian or U.S. firms and who transport commodities across the Canadian Border
  
• Foreign companies to send their personnel to the U.S. to install or service equipment pursuant to a contract of sale or to provide after sales service
  
• U.S. companies to bring foreign business consultants for training or expert advice
  
• U.S. universities to bring foreign guest speakers or lecturers

This Business visa is also referred to L1 visa. This is an intracompany transfer visa. It is further grouped in two categories. L1 A and L1 B visa. L1 A is for managerial positions and L1 B is skilled worker categories. This type is suitable for following categories of people:

• Foreign national executives being transferred to the U.S. to manage an organization or a major function or division of an organization
  
• Foreign national managers being transferred to the U.S. to supervise work of other supervisory, professional or managerial employees, or who manages an essential function, department or subdivision
  
• Specialized Knowledge employees of companies outside U.S. that have related U.S. branches, subsidiaries, affiliates or joint venture partners
  
• Employees and partners of international accounting firms
  
• Multinational companies to transfer foreign national executives to manage an organization or a major function or division of an organization in the U.S.
  
• Multinational companies to transfer foreign national managers to supervise work of other supervisory, professional or managerial employees, or who manages an essential function, department or subdivision in the U.S.
  
• Multinational companies to transfer employees with specialized knowledge such as, its products, research methods and marketing techniques.

E-1 is suitable for for following categories of people:

• Personnel including executives, managers and specialists of a treaty nation company operating in the U.S.
  
• Nationals of treaty countries seeking to enter the U.S. to carry out substantial trade
  
• Immediate family members of E-1 visa holders
  
• Companies in treaty countries to send key personnel to manage the U.S. affiliate or branch
  
• Companies in treaty countries to send personnel to setup a U.S. company

E-2 visa is suitable for following categories of people:

• Entrepreneurs from treaty countries investing substantially in a U.S. enterprise
  
• Nationals of treaty countries entering the U.S. to develop and direct investments from the treaty country
  
• Nationals of treaty countries entering the U.S. to develop and direct the operations of an enterprise in which they have invested, or they are actively in the process of investing a substantial amount of capital
  
• Immediate family members of E-2 visa holders
  
• Companies in treaty countries to send key personnel to manage the U.S. affiliate or branch
  
• Companies in treaty countries to send personnel to setup a U.S. company