Immigrant Daily

USCIS Memo: Requirements for Agents Filing as Petitioners for O and P Visas

On Friday, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) have published a memorandum containing guidance on requirements for agents and sponsors who file as petitioners under O and P visa classifications. The memorandum clarifies the standards for adjudicating O and P petitions filed by a petitioner acting as a U.S. agent for a beneficiary or beneficiaries who will be working for more than one employer within the same period.

Readers may note that O non-immigrant visa is available to people with an extraordinary ability in the fields of arts, science, athletics or business or in the motion picture and television. Whereas the P-1 non-immigrant visa is available to certain athletes, entertainers and artists. The memorandum clarifies the standards for adjudicating both O and P petitions filed by a petitioner as a U.S. agent for beneficiary or beneficiaries who will be working for more than one employer at the same period. In addition this guidance reaffirms the definition of a U.S. sponsoring organization for the P visa classification.

For complete information please click: USCIS Clarifies Requirements for Agents Filing as Petitioners for O and P Visa Classifications