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Texas Office:
7100 Regency Square
Blvd,
Suite #190,
Houston,
TX 77036
Telephone:(713) 278-1677
Fax: (713) 278-1656
Email: dakshini@dakshinisen.com
New York Office:
1123 Broadway, Suite 909
New york, NY 10010
Telephone/Fax:
(212) 242-1677
Business travelers may enter the United States using a B1, or 'Visitor for Business' Visa. In practice these visas are invariably issued as jointly with B2, or 'Visitor for Pleasure' (i.e. Tourist) visa. This practice means that, if a candidate has an old US tourist visa, it may be valid for a planned business trip. For those who come under the visa-waiver scheme, there is usually no need to apply for a US visitor visa at all if the candidate wishes to visit the US for three months or less.
Those entering on US visitor visas will generally be granted 6 months permission to be in the country (the maximum allowable is one year) on entry. It may be possible to obtain a six-month extension to the visit visa as long as the candidate will be maintaining visitor status, and there are good reasons to do so. It is sometimes possible to change status to another longer-term visa whilst in the US as a visitor, as long as the candidate advised the relevant US Embassy or Consulate of this possibility beforehand, or there was no pre-conceived intent to do so.
