Types of US Visas
Visitor Visa B – For travel to the United States to conduct temporary business. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/tourism-visit/visitor.html
Visa Waiver Program VWP –
Most citizens of participating countries may travel to the United States for short visits for temporary business without a visa through the Visa Waiver Program. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/tourism-visit/visa-waiver-program.html
Employment First Preference (E1):
Priority Worker and Persons of Extraordinary Ability – Multinational Managers or Executives – managers or executives who have been employed for at least one of the three preceding years by the overseas affiliate, parent, subsidiary, or branch of the U.S. employer. The applicant’s employment outside of the U.S. must have been in a managerial or executive capacity, and the applicant must be coming to work in a managerial or executive capacity. The prospective employer must provide a job offer and file an Immigrant Petition for Alien Worker, Form I-140, with the USCIS. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/employment-based-immigrant-visas.html
Employment Fifth Preference (E5):
Immigrant Investors – Immigrant Investor visa categories are for capital investment by foreign investors in new commercial enterprises in the United States which provide job creation. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/immigrant-investor-visas.html
To qualify as an immigrant investor, a foreign national must invest, without borrowing, the following minimum qualifying capital dollar amounts in a qualifying commercial enterprise:
$1,000,000 (U.S.); or $500,000 (U.S.) in a high-unemployment or rural area, considered a targeted employment area.
A qualifying investment must, within two years, create full-time jobs for at least 10 U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, or other immigrants authorized to work in the United States, not including the investor and the investor’s spouse, sons, or daughters.
Immigrant investor visa categories are:
- Employment creation outside a targeted area – C5
- Employment creation in a targeted rural/high unemployment area – T5
- Investor Pilot Program not in a targeted area – R5
- Investor Pilot Program in a targeted area – I5
EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program
Under this program, investors (and their spouses and unmarried children under 21) are eligible to apply for a Green Card (permanent residence) if they: https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/permanent-workers/eb-5-immigrant-investor-program
- Make the necessary investment in a commercial enterprise in the United States; and
- Plan to create or preserve 10 permanent full-time jobs for qualified U.S. workers.
Congress created the Immigrant Investor Program, also known as the Regional Center Program, which sets aside EB-5 visas for participants who invest in commercial enterprises associated with regional centers approved by USCIS based on proposals for promoting economic growth.
Approved EB-5 Immigrant Investor Regional Centers https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/permanent-workers/employment-based-immigration-fifth-preference-eb-5/eb-5-immigrant-investor-regional-centers/approved-eb-5-immigrant-investor-regional-centers
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