What is the difference between the O1 visa for outstanding talented chefs in the United States and the general work visa?

It is divided into immigrant visas (including relative visas, professional visas and special immigrant visas) and non-immigrant visas (***18 categories).

Immigration visa

refers to people who intend to give up their original place of residence and nationality, enter the United States for permanent residence, and apply to become a U.S. citizen. An immigrant visa is a visa for the purpose of immigrating to the United States. Generally, an application must be submitted to the U.S. Immigration Service. After strict review, the Immigration Service will issue an "approval document" to qualified candidates. Then, the applicant will submit the document to the Apply for an immigrant visa at a U.S. consulate abroad.

Immigration visas can be divided into relative visas, professional visas and special immigrant visas.

Related Immigration

Related Immigration*** is divided into two categories,

⑴. Relative immigrants who are not subject to global immigration restrictions, that is, immediate relatives: United States Spouse of a citizen; minor child (under 21 years old) of a U.S. citizen; parent of a U.S. citizen. This is classified as an immediate family member and can be handled at any time.

⑵. Relative-based immigrants subject to global immigration quota restrictions are divided into four levels in order of priority:

① Adult children (over 21 years old) of U.S. citizens and their children .

② Spouses and minor children of permanent residents; unmarried adult children of permanent residents and their children.

③ Married children of U.S. citizens (regardless of age) and their children.

④ Brothers and sisters of U.S. citizens who are 21 years of age or older.

Occupational immigration

Also known as work immigration, it is a way to immigrate to the United States by working in the United States based on certain occupational advantages. Employment-based immigration is undoubtedly an important path for those who do not meet the requirements for family-based immigration but have certain expertise and want to immigrate to the United States. According to the current immigration law, the total number of people who immigrate to the United States professionally every year is 140,000, and they are divided into five priority categories based on different occupations and personal conditions:

⑴. Priority workers

Foreigners who have outstanding performance in science, art, education, business, and sports and are nationally or globally renowned; 2. Have more than three years of teaching or research experience in special academic fields, and have obtained Internationally recognized outstanding professors or researchers; 3. Senior managers of international trading companies must have more than one year of working experience in the company in the first three years of applying for this status, and come to the United States to continue working in the same company or affiliated enterprise .

⑵. Specially skilled professionals with advanced degrees

Possessing advanced degrees (master's and master's degrees or above) or "equivalent qualifications" (at least five years in the professional field) experience); 2. Have special abilities in science, art, and business, and have substantial impact on the U.S. economy, culture, education, or welfare.

⑶. Technical workers, professionals and other workers

Refers to those who have a bachelor’s degree and are already engaged in professionals (such as accountants, architects and engineers, etc.); 2. Technical workers refer to Those with more than two years of vocational training or experience; 3. Other workers, including unskilled workers.

⑷. Special immigration

⑸. Investment immigration

The 1990 New Immigration Law created this program for foreigners who want to invest in the United States and obtain permanent residence. A new category of immigration. In order to apply for this type of immigration, foreign investors must invest US$500,000 in a new U.S. enterprise and create 10 new jobs directly or indirectly. This investment immigrant visa is effective from October 1, 1991.

Investment refers to the provision of capital, including cash, equipment, inventory, or other physical property. Time deposits, government bonds, and other securities that are easily converted into cash, as well as payment for goods, can all be regarded as property. Applicants must establish a commercial enterprise, purely real estate investment, buy land or housing, and wait for appreciation, which does not meet the regulations.

Investment immigrants, spouses and children can first obtain conditional residence status. After two years, if the Immigration Bureau determines that the investor has indeed fulfilled the relevant requirements, the investor, spouse and children can become permanent residents of the United States. Investors can hire 10 employees on the last day of the two-year investment period. After the investor and his relatives have obtained green cards, they can no longer hire employees if they are not needed for work.

Investors must maintain the business and employment conditions of the new enterprise within two years and maintain the survival of the enterprise to ensure that they can still fulfill their investment immigration obligations after two years. Otherwise, they will still be unable to permanently reside in the United States.

New commercial enterprises include the following three types: 1. Creating a new business; 2. Acquiring a distressed enterprise, reorganizing or reorganizing it, and retaining the original employees; 3. Buying and selling an existing business , and expand it.

Non-immigrant visas

Mainly "short-term" or "tourist visit" visas, which only allow you to stay in the United States temporarily, although the "short-term" stay may last for several days. Year. The categories of non-immigrant visas are mainly divided according to the applicant’s primary purpose of visiting the United States. With very few exceptions, persons visiting the United States on a non-immigrant visa may only engage in matters related to their visa category in the United States.

U.S. visas are divided into 18 categories and 48 types. The categories are sorted by English letters, from A to R, and the types are sorted by numbers under the category letters, such as A-1, A-2, etc., and others There are two special visa-free categories: WB&WT and GB>.

The 18 categories are:

Category A - Diplomats

A-1. Foreign ambassadors, senior officials, diplomatic or consular officials and their family members

A-2. Other foreign government officials or employees and their family members

A-3. Attendants, servants or personal assistants of A-1 and A-2 visa holders and their family members

Category B—Short-term visitors

B-1. Short-term business visit

B-2. Short-term travel

Category C— —Persons in transit

C-1. Aliens transiting

C-2. Qualified aliens transiting/transiting between the United Nations Headquarters and a foreign country

C -3. Foreign government officials, family members, waiters, servants and personal assistants in transit

Category D - Crew

D- Cabin Crew

Category E - —Special investors

E-1. Businessmen, spouses and minor children

E-2. Investors, spouses and minor children

Category F ——Students

F-1. Students who study full-time in legal schools

F-2. Students’ spouses and minor children

Category G— —Personnel of international organizations

G-1. Chief representatives, members and family members of recognized foreign government members of international organizations

G-2. Other recognized foreign governments Representatives of Member States

G-3. Chief representatives, members and family members of non-member states of international organizations other than recognized foreign governments

G-4. Officials or employees and family members

G-5. Attendants, servants or personal assistants and family members of G-1, G-2, G-3 and G-4 visa holders

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Category H - Special Skills Personnel

H-1A. Professional Nurse

H-1B. Short-term professional workers engaged in designated professional occupations

H-2A. Short-term agronomic workers engaged in short-term or seasonal employment

H-2B. Skilled and unskilled workers engaged in short-term service or labor

H -3. Trainees

H-4. Spouses and minor children of H-1, H-2 and H-3

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Category I ——Journalists

I Representatives of foreign media, spouses and minor children

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Category J——Visiting scholars

J -1. Exchange visitors of approved projects

J-2. Spouses and children of J-1 exchange visitors

Category K - Spouses and children of U.S. citizens< /p>

K-1. Fiancé(e) of a U.S. citizen immigrating to the United States

K-2. Children of K-1 fiancée

Category L - personnel of multinational companies

L-1A. Executives and managers of branches in the United States

L-1B. Professional knowledge employees

Category M - students with special skills and Dependents

M-1. Students come to the United States during the holidays for short-term vocational training visa. This kind of training cannot be in language schools, usually in universities.

N category - member of the North Atlantic Organization Representatives and family members of foreign nationals, as well as family members of special immigrants

N-8. Parents of children of foreign nationals designated as special immigrants

N-9. Children of special immigrant parents

NATO-1. Permanent chief representatives of North Atlantic Treaty Organization member states and family members

NATO-2. Members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Other representatives and family members of the countries

NATO-3. Coordinating officials and family members of representatives of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization member states

NATO-4. Other officials of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and Family members

NATO-5. Experts employed on behalf of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization mission and their attendants who do not meet the conditions of NATO-4 and their attendants

NATO-6. In the North Atlantic Staff members and their entourage who entered with force under the control of the Convention Organization

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ATO-7. Attendants, servants or personal assistants and family members of NATO-1, NATO-2, NATO-3, NATO-4, NATO-5 and NATO-6

Category O - Distinguished Personnel and assistants

O-1. Foreigners or athletes with outstanding abilities in science, art, education, and business

O-2. Following O-1 visa holders Certain Aliens

O-3. Family members of O-1 visa holders

Category P - Internationally renowned individuals and their families

P- 1. International athletes or international performing arts groups

P-2. Art or performing arts groups participating in exchange programs

P-3. Art or performing arts groups participating in special cultural exchange programs

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P-4. Spouses or children of P-1, P-2 and P-3

Category Q - Cultural Exchange Project Personnel

Q-1. Participants in the International Cultural Exchange Program

Category R - Religious Persons

R-1. Religious Persons

R-2. Spouse of R-1 or children

S category

S-5. Individuals who provide emergency information about illegal organizations or companies

S-6. Individuals who provide information related to terrorist organizations

T category

TN. Employees of the North American Free Trade Act

TD. Spouses or children of employees of the North American Free Trade Act pay their fees.