Participants to attend scientific, educational, professional, business, or religious conventions
Persons to work on specific projects in the host country and to be paid by a foreign employer(s)
Business professionals to participate in commercial transactions (which do not involve gainful employment) such as negotiating contracts and consulting with business associates
Persons to undertake independent studies such as feasibility studies, market research or any similar activity
Persons to attend professional or business conferences, workshops, or seminars
Business professionals to explore possibilities to set up a subsidiary of a foreign corporation, or to make investments
Personal or domestic servants to come to the host country with a host country citizen or nonimmigrant employer
Technical personnel to install or service equipment pursuant to a contract of sale, or to provide after sales service
Business professionals to attend meetings as a member of the Board of Directors of a host country corporation
Persons to observe business, professional, or vocational activity as long as it does not involve any hands-on activity
Professional athletes to compete for tournament money and not for a salary
Professionals to conduct business consultations with business associates in the host country
Purchasing agents of a foreign employer or foreign company to come to the host country to procure goods, components, or raw materials for use outside the host country
Foreign business persons coming to the host country in conjunction with litigation
Persons rendering professional services in the host country that would otherwise qualify them for a specialty occupation visa, but who are paid for those services by a source outside the host country
Persons employed outside the host country who are paid from abroad, and who come to the host country to undertake an established training program that would qualify them for a visa in the category
Employees of foreign airlines who are engaged in productive employment in the host country and paid in the host country who are not eligible for treaty trader status
Other persons such as for bona fide religious missionaries and crew members on yachts
Foreign companies to send their personnel to the host country to install or service equipment pursuant to a contract of sale or to provide after sales service
Host country companies to bring foreign business consultants for training or advice
Host country universities to bring foreign guest speakers or lecturers
Similar categories are found in the laws of countries around the world
