List of Nonimmigrant and Immigrant Visa Categories
Primary Nonimmigrant Categories:
- A visa - Foreign government diplomats and officials
- B-1/B-2 visa - Visitors for business (including athletes competing only for prize money), tourists and visitors for medical treatment.
- C/D visa - Transit and crew members
- E-1 visa - Treaty traders
- E-2 visa - Treaty investor
- E-3 visa - Australian professionals/workers in specialty occupations
- F-1 visa - Academic student
- G-1-G-5 visa - Employee of international organization
- H-1B visa - Workers in specialty occupations
- H-1B1 visa - Free Trade Agreement professional from Singapore or Chile
- H-2A visa - Temporary agricultural workers
- H-2B visa - Temporary worker performing other services or labor of a temporary or seasonal nature.
- H-3 visa - Participants in training programs
- I visa - Journalists and member of the media
- J-1 visa - Participants in exchange programs including au pairs, physicians, trainees and interns.
- K-1 visa - Fiancé(es)
- L-1 - Intracompany Transfer Visa Information
- L-1A visa/L-1B visa - Intracompany transferees (executive, manager or specialized knowledge worker)
- M-1 visa - Vocational students
- O-1 visa - Persons with extraordinary ability in sciences, arts, education, business or athletics
- P-1 visa - Athletes and entertainment groups.
- Q-1 visa - Participants in cultural exchange programs
- R-1 visa - Religious workers
- TN visa - NAFTA professional workers from Canada or Mexico
- T visa - Victims of human trafficking
- U visa - Victims of criminal activity
Primary Immigrant Categories:
- Family Sponsored Immigrants
- Immediate Relatives: Spouse, parent or child of U.S. citizen
- Preference 1: Unmarried sons and daughters (21 years or older) of U.S. citizen
- Preference 2a: Spouse or child of lawful permanent resident
- Preference 2b: Unmarried sons and daughters of lawful permanent resident
- Preference 3: Married sons and daughters of U.S. citizens
- Preference 4: Brothers and sisters of U.S. citizens
- Employment Based Immigrants
- Persons with extraordinary ability
- Outstanding professors and researchers
- Multinational managers and executives
- EB-2
- EB-3: Professionals, skilled workers and unskilled workers
- EB-4: Certain religious workers and other special immigrants
- EB-5: Immigrant Investor
- Diversity Lottery Immigrants
- Political Asylum/Refugee Immigrants