Work Visas

E-3 Visa Foreign professionals from Australia in specialty occupations (U.S. companies to bring in qualified foreign professionals from Australia for jobs that require a bachelor’s degree and specialized skills);

H-1B Persons in Specialty Occupation which requires the theoretical and practical application of a body of highly specialized knowledge requiring completion of a specific course of higher education. (65,000); fashion models; Government-to-Government research and development, or co-production projects administered by the Department of Defense (100);

H-2B Temporary or Seasonal Nonagricultural Workers. This classification generally requires a temporary labor certification issued by the Department of Labor (66,000);

H-3 Trainees (other than medical or academic)This visa type also applies to practical training in the education of handicapped children (50);

L Intracompany Transferees who, within the three preceding years, has been employed abroad continuously for one year, and who will be employed by a branch, parent, affiliate, or subsidiary of that same employer in the U.S. in a managerial, executive, or specialized knowledge capacity;

O-1 Individuals with Extraordinary Ability or Achievement in the sciences, arts, education, business, or athletics, or extraordinary achievements in the motion picture and television field;

O-2 Persons Accompanying an O-1 to assist in an artistic or athletic performance for a specific event or performance;

P-1 Individual or Team Athletes, or Members of an Entertainment group that are internationally recognized (25,000);

P-2 Artists or Entertainers who will perform under a reciprocal exchange program;

P-3 Artists or Entertainers who perform under a program that is culturally unique;

Q-1 Participants in an International Cultural Exchange Program for the purpose of providing practical training, employment, and the sharing of the history, culture, and traditions of the alien's home country;

R-1 Members of Religious Organizations having a bona fide nonprofit, religious organization in the U.S coming to the U.S. to work solely as the minister of a religious group or community; and Nonprofit religious organizations in the U.S. to employ foreign religious workers to work in religious vocations such as liturgical workers, religious instructors or cantors, catechists, missionaries, religious translators, or religious broadcasters;

TN Foreign professionals from Canada or Mexico in specialty occupationwho will work in the U.S. for a temporary periodin a designated professional capacity that appears on a list of professions designated under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). These positions require for the most part the TN employee to hold at least a Bachelor’s degree.