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This category of USA visas is offered
to qualified foreign trainees who enter the United States
with the purpose of participating in an established
occupational training program. The visa anticipates
that the alien will not be entering the USA for the
purpose of engaging in productive employment even though
some degree of productive employment may be permissible
so long as it is incidental to the training and is otherwise
inconsequential in nature.
USA immigration regulations dictate
that the United Staes company must file a preliminary
petition with the United States Citizenship
and Immigration Services to participate in an established
training and educational program.
If the company does not have its own
approved and fully structured in-house training program,
then it will have to seek the assistance of one or more
blanket agencies which have already been authorised
by the United States Information agency to sponsor the
entry of qualified persons.
The H-3 visa is issued for the
duration of the training program which usually means
an outside limit of two years. It is possible however,
to extend the visa beyond this duration.
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