TYPE OF NONIMMIGRANT VISA
Visa Type | Purpose |
A | Diplomats and foreign government officials |
B-1 | Athletes, amateur and professional (to compete for prize money only), business visitors, domestic employees or nanny accompanying a foreign national employer |
B-2 | Visitors for medical treatment, tourism, vacation, or pleasure |
C | Transiting the United States |
D | Crewmembers |
E-1 | Treaty traders |
E-2 | Treaty investors |
E-3 | Australian professional specialty |
F-1 | Academic students |
G1-G5, NATO | Employees of a designated international organization, and NATO |
H-1B | Specialty occupations in fields requiring highly specialized knowledge |
H-1B1 – Chile | Free Trade Agreement (FTA) Professionals: Chile, Singapore |
H-2A | Temporary agricultural workers |
H-2B | Temporary workers performing other services or labor of a temporary or seasonal nature |
H-3 | Training in a program not primarily for employment |
I | Media, journalists |
J | Exchange visitors (trainees, Au pairs, physicians, professors, scholars, and teachers |
K-1 | Fiance(e) of a U.S. citizen |
L | Intra-company transferees |
M | Vocational students |
N | Certain parents and children of special immigrants |
O | Foreign nationals with extraordinary ability in Sciences, Arts, Education, Business or Athletics |
P | Performing athletes, artists, entertainers |
Q | International cultural exchange visitors |
R | Religious workers |
S | Criminal and terrorist informants |
T | Victims of human trafficking |
TN/TD | NAFTA professional workers: Mexico, Canada |
U | Victims of certain crimes |
V | Spouses and minor children of a lawful permanent resident |