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Nonimmigrant classes

Country(ies)

United States of America

Subjects (Classification)

Migrant workers

Adopted on (Date of text)

1992-01-01

Scope of text

National

Type of legislation (Type of text)

Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Abstract/Citation

Details the requirements for obtaining a nonimmigrant visa. The rules provide for eighteen different visas, each with a specific letter code to which may be added a number. The following categories exist: Foreign government officials (A-1,2), visitors (B-1 business, B-2 pleasure), transits (D), traders and investors (E), students in universities and similar institutions (F-1, 2), representatives of international organizations (G1-5), temporary employees (H-1A nurses, H-1B artists, specialists, H-2A temporary agricultural workers, H-2B other temporary workers, H-3 trainees), representatives of international media (I), exchange aliens (J), fiancées and fiancés (K), intracompany transferees (L), students in vocational training insitutions (M), certain parents and children of status I nonimmigrants, aliens of extraordinary ability (O), artists and entertainers under a reciprocal exchange program (P), international cultural exchange aliens (Q), religious workers (R), NATO aliens (NATO 1-7). Children of nonimmigrants with A, B, C, D and E status may be accorded the same nonimmigrant classification. Specific limitations apply to Libyan nationals. Specific rules apply to Canadians applying for admission pursuant to the United States-Canada Free Trade Agreement (FTA)