AEA015: Practical Information for Professional Speakers Travelling to the US

<p>Today's podcast is a live webinar presented by Evelyn Ackah, Canada Immigration Lawyer to the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers: CAPS.</p> <p>What Is a Business Visitor?<br /> As a Canadian going to the United States, business visitor activity is not work from an immigration perspective. It's more about are you going there with a prearranged engagement? Have you been paid? Are you being paid in the U.S.? You don't want that if you don't have a work permit. So business visitor, we can get honorariums, you can get your expenses paid for, there's a lot more flexibility.</p> <p><br /> U.S. Visa Options<br /> NAFTA B-1 and TN visas are probably the main U.S. visa options that will affect a speaker travelling to the United States. An O and P visa could also that'll probably affect you.</p> <p>You are not actually seen to be entering the U.S. labor market. Generally speaking as a NAFTA business visitor:</p> <ul> <li>you have to be a Canadian citizen</li> <li>you have to be going down for meetings</li> <li>you can do sales activity</li> <li>you can do trainings depending on the context of training</li> </ul>