A-1. Ambassadors, public ministers, or career diplomats, and their immediate family members. A-2. Other accredited officials or employees of foreign governments, and their immediate family members. A-3. Personal attendants, servants, employees, and the immediate family members of A-1 and A-2 visa holders. B-1. Business visitors. B-2. Visitors for pleasure or medical treatment. C-1. Foreign travelers in immediate and continuous transit through the U.S. D-1. Crewmen who need to land temporarily in the U.S. and who will depart aboard the same ship or plane on which they arrived. E-1. Treaty traders working for a U.S. trading company that does 50% or more of its business with the trader's home country. E-2. Treaty investors working for a U.S. company with 50% or more of its investment capital coming from the worker's home country. E-3. Australian professionals coming to the United States to perform services in a specialty occupation (similar to an H-1B, but with a separate allotment of 10,500 visas). Spouses and children may accompany the E-3 visa holder. F-1. Academic or language students. F-2. Immediate family members of F-1 visa holders. F-3. Citizens or residents of Mexico or Canada commuting to the U.S. to attend an academic school. G-1. Designated principal resident representatives of foreign governments coming to the U.S. to work for an international organization, and their staff members and immediate family members. G-2. Other accredited representatives of foreign governments coming to the U.S. to work for an international organization, and their immediate family members. G-3. Representatives of foreign governments and their immediate family members who would ordinarily qualify for G-1 or G-2 visas except that their governments are not members of an international organization. G-4. Officers or employees of international organizations, and their immediate family members. G-5. Attendants, servants, and personal employees of G-1 through G-4 visa holders, and their immediate family members. H-1B. Persons working in specialty occupations requiring at least a bachelor's degree or its equivalent in on-the-job experience, and distinguished fashion models. H-2A. Temporary agricultural workers coming to the U.S. to fill positions for which a temporary shortage of American workers has been recognized by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. H-2B. Temporary workers of various kinds coming to the U.S. to perform temporary jobs for which there is a shortage of available, qualified American workers. H-3. Temporary trainees coming for on-the-job training unavailable in their home countries. H-4. Immediate family members of H-1, H-2, or H-3 visa holders. I. Bona fide representatives of the foreign press coming to the U.S. to work solely in that capacity, and their immediate family members. J-1. Exchange visitors coming to the U.S. to study, work, or train as part of an exchange program officially recognized by the U.S. Department of State. J-2. Immediate family members of J-1 visa holders. (continued on next page) |