B1 question

[cub99 0]

I am currently in the process of getting an R1 visa and have a question about the application process.

I am a Canadian and was in the USA for a year (summer 2012-2013, I'm in Canada now) doing an unpaid internship on what I have called a B1 visa up to this point. I'm now in the process of filling out the DS-160 to have my interview here in Canada for my R1 visa and it asks on the application if I've ever had an American visa. Taking a look back at the stamp and paper they put in my passport when I crossed the border in 2012 it doesn't say visa anywhere on it, it just has a stamp and says B1 in it. The paper they stapled in (which by the looks of it I was supposed to give to the border guard when I came back to Canada, whoops) has a departure number, the date, my name and birthday, says CBP I-94A) and has the same stamp with the B1 in it that they also put on the page of my passport. The bottom of the paper has a number and it says US-VISIT. If it helps I can upload a photo of what the stamp looks like.

If it helps at all I'll explain how I got this B1 "visa". I had been accepted to do this year long internship at a church in the US but knew that as a Canadian I'm only allowed to be in the US for a period of 6 months at a time so I planned on going for 6 months, coming back to Canada to visit, and heading back down for the second 6 months. When I was at the border and explained that I was going down to do an internship and showed them the letter of invitation from the church they issued me this B1 instead, so I could stay for whole year the internship was to last.

So my question is, is this a visa? I don't want to say on my application that I haven't when I have, or that I have when I haven't. From the research I've done I don't think it is a visa because it's just the I-94, but I wanted to make sure I got it right!

Thanks so much in advance for your help!!

Edited January 26, 2014 by cub99

[Cathi 5,860]

what is an r1 visa?

[cub99 0]

A religious visa, I'll be working at the same church I was interning at.

http://www.***removed***/visas/religiousvisa/

[canadian_wife 1,831]

B1 - as what your stamp says

good luck