VISAS SOLUTIONS FOR INDIVIDUALS SEEKING TO TEMPORARILY WORK OR TRAIN IN THE U.S.

A J-1 Exchange Visitor Visa allows qualifying individuals to come to the U.S. to expand their knowledge or learn about U.S. culture. The J-1 visa program is designed to promote knowledge and cultural exchange between the U.S. and other countries through work and education. You can apply for a J-1 visa to participate in an approved program for teaching or lecturing, studying, conducting research, consulting, receiving training, or receiving graduate medical education or training. The programs can last a few weeks or several years. Depending upon the program you participate in, you may be required to return to your home country to live for a period of at least two years upon completing your program. If you are unable or do not wish to return to your home country for two years, you can apply for a waiver. Eligible J-1 visa positions include:

• Government worker;
• Physician;
• Teacher/Professor;
• Scholar;
• Research assistant;
• Student;
• Au pair;
• Camp counselor;
• Trainee; and
• Specialist

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An O Visa allows you to work in the U.S. if you are an extremely talented individual working in the arts, sciences, education, business, or athletics. An O visa may also be available to those who will accompany and assist you in your artistic or athletic performance if they are an “integral part” of your actual performance and possess “critical skills and experience” with you, which are not general in nature and cannot be performed by a U.S. worker.   O-1A Visas may be your best option if you possess extraordinary ability in the sciences, education, business, or athletics. To demonstrate you possess extraordinary ability in your field, you must have received a major, internationally-recognized award like a Nobel Prize. However, even if you have yet to receive a Nobel Prize, you can still qualify for an O-1A visa if you can meet at least 3 of the following criteria:

• You have received a nationally or internationally recognized prize or award for excellence in your field;
• You are a member of an association for which outstanding achievement in your field is required for membership, as judged by recognized experts in the field;
• Material has been published in professional or major trade publications or major media about you, relating to your work in the field;
• You have participated on a panel, or individually, where you judged the work of others in the same or an allied field;
• You have made original scientific, scholarly, or business-related contributions of major significance to your field;
• You have written scholarly articles in the field for professional journals or other major media;
• You have worked in a critical or essential capacity for organizations with distinguished reputations; and/or
• You have commanded a high salary or will command a high salary or other remuneration for your services.

  An O-1B Visa allows individuals who possess extraordinary ability in the arts or have a record of extraordinary achievement in the television or motion picture industries to work in the U.S. To demonstrate you possess extraordinary ability in these areas, you must have received, or been nominated for a significant national or international award or prize in the particular field, such as an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy, or Director's Guild Award. However, even if you have yet to received one of these awards, you may still qualify for an O-1B visa if you can meet at least 3 of the following criteria:

• You have performed and will perform services as a lead or starring participant in distinguished productions or events;
• You have achieved national or international recognition for your achievements;
• You have performed and will perform in a lead, starring, or critical role for organizations and establishments that have a distinguished reputations;
• You have demonstrated a record of major commercial or critically acclaimed successes;
• You have received significant recognition for achievements from organizations, critics, government agencies, or other recognized experts in your field; and/or
• You have commanded a high salary or will command a high salary or other substantial remuneration for your services in relation to others in your field.

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A P-1A Visa allows athletes or teams to come to the U.S. temporarily to compete in a specific athletic competition. You can qualify for a P-1A visa as an individual athlete whose performance is internationally recognized, you are part of a group or team whose performance is internationally recognized, you are a professional athlete, or you are an athlete for or coach of a team that is based in the United States and a member of a foreign league.

A P-1B Visa allows individuals to temporarily come to the U.S. to perform as a member of an outstanding internationally recognized entertainment group. Your essential support personnel may also be granted visas.

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An R-1 Visa is available to eligible religious workers who wish to come to temporarily work in the U.S. Are you a religious organization seeking to temporarily bring a foreign national to the U.S. who has dedicated their life to religious practices and functions? A non-profit religious organization can sponsor individuals for an R-1 visa. The R-1 visa is available to:

• Ministers;
• Rabbis;
• Priests;
• Clergy members;
• Others who hold a recognized occupation within the religious organization, which directly relates to the dissemination or inculcation of the organization's beliefs or creed; and
• Other religious workers such as nuns, monks, brothers, or sisters may qualify for an R-1 visa if they have taken vows or completed other ceremonial rights attesting to a particular religious lifestyle that is recognized by the religious organization.

 

To be eligible for an R-1 visa, you must be coming to the U.S. to work as a minister or in another religious vocation at least 20 hours a week for:

• A religious denomination with bona fide non-profit religious status in the U.S., which you have worked for at least 2 years immediately before seeking the R-1 visa;
• A religious organization that is authorized by a group tax exemption holder to use its group tax exemption; and
• A non-profit religious organization which is affiliated with a religious denomination in the United States.

In addition, the religious organization must show how you will be compensated. Compensation may be either salaried or non-salaried. The religious organization must show how the religious worker will be supported while in the U.S. There are limited circumstances where you may support yourself.

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An H-3 Trainee Visa allows you to come to the U.S. temporarily to receive training that is not available in your home country. You must be invited by an individual employer or organization to receive job-related training for work that you would ultimately do outside the U.S. To receive an H-3 visa, a U.S. employer or organization must show:

• The proposed training is not available to you in your native country;
• You will not be placed in a position in which U.S. workers are regularly employed;
• You will only engage in productive employment to the extent that such employment is incidental and necessary to your training; and
• The training will benefit you in pursuing a career outside the U.S.

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