America Domestic Employee Visa

Overview

Personal or domestic servants who are accompanying or following an employer to the United States may be eligible for B-1 visas. This category of domestic employees includes, but is not limited to, cooks, butlers, chauffeurs, housemaids, valets, footmen, nannies, au pairs, mothers’ helpers, gardeners, and paid companions.

Those accompanying or following to join an employer who is a foreign diplomat or government official may be eligible for an A-3 or G-5 visa, depending upon their employer’s visa status.

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Qualifications

If you are a domestic employee and wish to apply for a B-1 visa, you must demonstrate that:

The purpose of your trip is to enter the United States for work as a domestic employee

You plan to remain in the U.S. for a specific, limited period of time

Your employer meets certain qualifications

You have evidence of compelling social and economic ties abroad

You have a residence outside the United States as well as other binding ties that will ensure 

you return abroad at the end of your contract.
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