INFINITI LAW

The E1 visa is for traders and their employees to carry on their business in the US if their home country has a commercial treaty with the US conferring visa eligibility.

HIGHLIGHTS

• E1 non-immigrant status is available for a national of a country with which the United States maintains a treaty of commerce and navigation who is coming to the US to carry on substantial trade, including trade in services or technology, principally between the United States and the treaty country.
• This visa can be extended indefinitely, provided the requirements continue to be met

• The applicant must be a national of a treaty country (see list below for E1 approved countries)
• The trading firm for which the applicant is coming to the United States must have the nationality of the treaty country
• The international trade must be “substantial” in the sense that there is a sizeable and continuing volume of trade
• The trade must be principally between the United States and the treaty country, which is defined to mean that more than 50% of the international trade involved must be between the United States and the country of the applicant’s nationality
• Trade means the international exchange of goods, services, and technology.  Title of the trade item must pass from one party to the other
• The applicant must be employed in a supervisory or executive capacity, or possess highly specialized skills essential to the efficient operation of the firm.