Treaty Investors

Overview The Immigration and Nationality Act provides
nonimmigrant visa status for a national of a country with which the
United States maintains a treaty of commerce and navigation who is
coming to the United States to carry on substantial trade,
including trade in services or technology, principally between the
United States and the treaty country, or to develop and direct the
operations of an enterprise in which the national has invested, or
is in the process of investing a substantial amount of capital. For
a list of Treaty Countries, click here. Requirements: Treaty Trader
The applicant must be a national of a treaty country. The trading
firm for which the applicant is coming to the U. S. must have the
nationality of the treaty country. The international trade must be
substantial in the sense that there is a sizable and continuing
volume of trade. The trade must be principally between the U.S. and
the treaty country, which is defined to mean that more than 50
percent of the international trade involved must be between the
U.S. and the country of the applicants nationality. Trade means the
international exchange of goods, services, and technology. Title of
the trade items must passRead more