kikithekat

As a Director of Photography with some credits under your belt I suspect that you may well be able to obtain an O1B visa - for individuals with an extraordinary ability in the arts or extraordinary achievement in motion picture or television industry.

Do you have a US agent that could file an O petition for you?

You can also pay extra for premium processing which can speed it up to under a couple of weeks, and aided by a sprinkling of magic from a good O lawyer wording the petition the right way, it could work out well for you.

oh wow. i had no idea!!! where would i find such an agent and what are the costs?

I had an I-visa for a while - it's for media professionals employed by a foreign media company needing to work on something for that foreign media company in the US. For example, I was a news reporter and the visa was for coming to the US to interview and create news reports for a broadcaster in the UK.

It was a very quick visa to get at the London Embassy with the right credentials.

You can only use it for the time it takes for your project or job - it's not for any other use. You can't use it to travel for pleasure for example.

While I had it in my passport I also travelled occasionally on the VWP to visit my boyfriend and was always asked whether I would be working because of the I-visa in my passport.

What difficulties are you worried about - getting the actual visa or using it?

Hey, i can get the I-Visa quite easy. I just heard that they would ask a lot of questions on the immigration when you have an I-Visa and it could be a pain to get in ( especially with trump on the horizon). YOu never had any problems here?

I had no idea that you couldnt travel for pleasure to the states with an I-Visa. I got my ESTA revoked as i was visiting Iran and i am not elegible for the VWP anymore. so that is actually a huge problem. :/

i am asking what potential downsides a journalist visa would have and i am looking for an answer not parental advices.

hey, on a buisness visa i am alllowed to work when i get paid from abroad. so, i would tell this.

Hey guys,

i got denied the visa waiver because of a previous journey to iran. For a job as the DOP of a documentary, i needed to travel to the states in February. But representative at the embassy assest me and said i needed to apply for a I-Visa because of the nature of this film. AS they couldnt issue ANY visa in time for the job, so he put the status on pending. Now i have another job coming up for a commercial brand and wanted to reactivate my visa. Yet again they want to go ahead with I-Visa. But i have heard that an I-Visa has a few fall downs and you always have trouble at the borderimmigration and that it wont be wise to apply for this if i could also get a B1.

Is there anybody with experiences of an I-Visa here? What are the difficulties? Any advices?

Thanks

kiki