Looking to work in the United States? Learn more about the types of work visas that exist

If you plan to go to work in the American Union and want to do so within the legal framework, you must know the types of visas that the United States offers you so that you can carry out your work in a professional manner.
Make sure you meet job requirements, check conditions, working arrangements, salary, and apply directly to potential employers.
Nonimmigrant visas are for people who want to come to the United States temporarily for tourism, business, temporary work, study, or medical care.
We leave you here the types of work visa that you can request:
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CREW MEMBER
A person who works on board a ship or aircraft in the United States must have a “crew member” visa.
Visa requirement:
Your service must be important inside the ship or the plane, (paramedic, nurse, auxiliaries, etc.)
You do not need to be employed at the time of the visa application, as long as the applicant was employed on the ship or plane on which the applicant arrived in the United States.
You can be a trainee on board a ship or a training plane.
Aircraft and vessel crew members applying for a B1/B2 and C1/D visa must complete a DS-160 visa application form online, pay an MRV application, and schedule a C1/D visa appointment .
MEDIA AND JOURNALISTS
To apply for the “media and journalists” visa, the applicant must belong to a media chain comprising written, radio, cinematographic or photographic media, whose activities were essential to the functioning of foreign media.
Applicant must be involved in qualifying activities for a media organization headquartered in a foreign country.
Visa requirement:
Important employees of foreign news media responsible for filming a current event or a documentary.
Members of the media who are engaged in the production or distribution of filmed material will only be eligible for a media visa if the filmed material is used to disseminate information or news. Additionally, the primary source and distribution of funding must be outside of the United States.
Contract journalists: Persons holding a title issued by a professional journalistic organization, if they work under contract for a product that will be used abroad by a news or cultural media to disseminate information or news not intended primarily for the entertainment or commercial advertising.
Employees of independent production companies when these employees held accreditation issued by a professional association of journalists.
Foreign journalists who work for a foreign branch or affiliate of a U.S. network, newspaper, or other media if the reporter is traveling to the United States to report U.S. events exclusively to a foreign audience.
Accredited representatives of tourist agencies, controlled, operated, or subsidized in whole or in part by a foreign government, who are primarily engaged in providing visitors with factual information about that country.
TRADER / INVESTOR WITH TREATMENT
The Treaty Trader (E1) or Treaty Investor (E2) visa is for citizens of countries with which the United States has signed commerce and navigation treaties, who are traveling to the country to conduct any substantial business activity, that includes services or technology, primarily between the United States and the treaty country, or to develop and direct the operations of a business in which the foreign national has or will invest substantial capital.
The E1 nonimmigrant visa classification allows citizens of a treaty country to enter the United States exclusively to engage in international commerce.
The E2 nonimmigrant visa classification allows citizens of a treaty country to enter the United States when they intend to invest significant capital in a U.S. business.
TEMPORARY WORKER/EMPLOYMENT OR INTERNSHIPS
If an applicant wishes to work in the United States on a temporary non-immigration basis, under US immigration law, the applicant needs a specific visa, depending on the type of work to be performed.
Individuals can apply for a temporary worker visa only after an I-129 petition has been filed by U.S. employers and approved by USCIS.
Type of visa:
People with occupational specialties
Free Trade Agreement (FTA) Professional (H-1B1)
Seasonal agricultural workers
Seasonal or temporary non-agricultural workers
Interns (non-medical or academic)
Transferee within the company
People with extraordinary abilities
Internationally renowned athletes, artists and broadcasters
International cultural exchange visitor
religious worker
PROFESSIONAL NAFTA
The NAFTA Professional (TN) nonimmigrant visa allows Canadian and Mexican citizens, as NAFTA professionals, to work in the United States in pre-arranged business activity for a U.S. or foreign company.
Visa requirement:
Applicant must be a citizen of Canada or Mexico
The profession must be on the NAFTA list
The position in the United States must require a NAFTA professional
The Canadian or Mexican candidate must go to work in a pre-arranged full-time or part-time position.
The Canadian or Mexican candidate must have the necessary qualifications for the profession
For more information on visa applications and requirements, visit: usvisa
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