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Written by Administrator   
Saturday, 23 February 2008 19:52
 

Investment Visas

 

One of the ways for attaining a visa to enter the United States is by a Treaty Trader visa or Treaty Investor visa. The investment and trader visa is an alternative for entering the U.S. for extended stays for those that are able to either invest certain amounts of money or can demonstrate that they are traders.

 

There are several options under the E visa (Investment Visa). The E-1 the Treaty Trader and the E-2 Treaty Investor.

 

The E classification of Investment and Trade visas are based on treaties with the home countries of the applicants. To be eligible for an E-1 visa or an E-2 visa, the applicant’s home country must have a treaty with the United States. Some treaties support one or both of the visas. Below is a chart for the countries that currently have visas with the United States. 

 

 

9 FAM §41.51 Exhibit I.

Albania (E-2)

Ethiopia (E-1 & E-2)

Morocco (E-2)

Argentina (E-1 & E-2)

Finland (E-1 & E-2)

Netherlands  

Netherlands. The Treaty, which entered into force on December 5, 1957, is applicable to Aruba and Netherlands Antilles.

(E-1 & E-2)

Armenia (E-2)

France  

France. The Treaty, which entered into force on December 21, 1960, applies to the departments of Martinique, Guadeloupe, French Guiana, and Reunion.

(E-1 & E-2)

Norway 

Norway. The Treaty, which entered into force on September 13, 1932, does not apply to Svalbard (Spitzbergen and certain lesser islands).

(E-1 & E-2)

Australia (E-1 & E-2)

Georgia (E-2)

Oman (E-1 & E-2)

Austria (E-1 & E-2)

Germany (E-1 & E-2)

Pakistan (E-1 & E-2)

Azerbaijan (E-2)

Greece (E-1)

Panama (E-2)

Bahrain (E-2)

Grenada (E-2)

Paraguay (E-1 & E-2)

Bangladesh (E-2)

Honduras (E-1 & E-2)

Philippines (E-1 & E-2)

Belgium (E-1 & E-2)

Iran (E-1 & E-2)

Poland (E-2)

Bolivia (E-1 & E-2)

Ireland (E-1 & E-2)

Romania (E-2)

Bosnia & Herzegovina  (E-1 & E-2)

Israel (E-1)

Senegal (E-2)

Brunei (E-1)

Italy (E-1 & E-2)

Slovak Republic

Czech Republic and Slovak Republic. The Treaty with the Czech and Slovak Federal Republics entered into force on December 19, 1992; it entered into force for the Czech Republic and Slovak Republic as separate states on January 1, 1993.

(E-2)

Bulgaria (E-2)

Jamaica (E-2)

Slovenia  

Yugoslavia. The U.S. view is that the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) has dissolved and that the successors that formerly made up the SFRY-Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Slovenia, and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia-continue to be bound by the treaty in force with the SFRY at the time of dissolution.

(E-1 & E-2)

Cameroon (E-2)

Japan

Japan. The Treaty, which entered into force on October 30, 1953, was made applicable to the Bonin Islands on June 26, 1968, and to the Ryukyu Islands on May 15, 1972.

(E-1 & E-2)

Spain  

Spain. The Treaty, which entered into force on April 14, 1903, is applicable to all territories.

(E-1 & E-2)

Canada (E-1 & E-2)

Jordan (E-1 & E-2)

Sri Lanka (E-2)

Taiwan

China (Taiwan). Pursuant to Section 6 of the Taiwan Relations Act, Public Law 96-8, 93 Stat, 14, and Executive Order 12143, 44 F.R. 37191, this agreement, which was concluded with the Taiwan authorities prior to January 1, 1979, is administered on a nongovernmental basis by the American Institute in Taiwan, a nonprofit District of Columbia corporation, and constitutes neither recognition of the Taiwan authorities nor the continuation of any official relationship with Taiwan.

(E-1 & E-2)

Kazakhstan (E-2)

Suriname  

Suriname. The Treaty with the Netherlands, which entered into force December 5, 1957, was made applicable to Suriname on February 10, 1963.

(E-1 & E-2)

Colombia (E-1 & E-2)

Korea (South) (E-1 & E-2)

Sweden (E-1 & E-2)

Congo (E-2)

Kyrgyzstan (E-2)

Switzerland (E-1 & E-2)

Congo (Kinshasa) (E-2)

Latvia (E-1 & E-2)

Thailand (E-1 & E-2)

Costa Rica (E-1 & E-2)

Liberia (E-1 & E-2)

Togo (E-1 & E-2)

Croatia  

See footnote 15.

(E-1 & E-2)

Lithuania (E-2)

Trinidad & Tobago (E-2)

Czech Republic  

See footnote 14.

(E-2)

Luxembourg (E-1 & E-2)

Tunisia (E-2)

Denmark  

Denmark. The Convention of 1826 does not apply to the Faroe Islands of Greenland. The Treaty, which entered into force on July 30, 1961, does not apply to Greenland.

(E-1)

Macedonia (E-1 & E-2)

Turkey (E-1 & E-2)

Ecuador (E-2)

Mexico (E-1 & E-2)

Ukraine (E-2)

Egypt (E-2)

Moldova (E-2)

United Kingdom  

United Kingdom. The Convention, which entered into force on July 3, 1815, applies only to British territory in Europe (the British Isles [except the Republic of Ireland], the Channel Islands, and Gibraltar) and to "inhabitants" of such territory. This term, as used in the Convention, means "one who resides actually and permanently in a given place, and has his domicile there." Also, in order to qualify for treaty trader or treaty investor status under this treaty, the alien must be a national of the United Kingdom. Individuals having the nationality of members of the Commonwealth other than the United Kingdom do not qualify for treaty trader or treaty investor status under this treaty.

(E-1 & E-2)

Estonia (E-1 & E-2)

Mongolia (E-2)

Yugoslavia  

See footnote 15.

(E-1 & E-2)

 

*The E-1 and E-2 on the side of each country notes whether the treaty is good for either or both of the E visas.


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