Non inmigrant Visa B1/B2
The "visitor" visa is a nonimmigrant visa for persons desiring to enter the United States temporarily for business (B-1) or for pleasure or medical treatment (B-2).
If the purpose for your planned travel is to consult with business associates, travel for a scientific, educational, professional or business convention, or conference on specific dates, settle an estate, or negotiate a contract, then you would apply for a visitors visa. If if the purpose of your planned travel is recreational in nature, including tourism, amusement, visits with friends or relatives, rest, medical treatment, and activities of a fraternal, social, or service nature, then you would apply for a vistors visa too.
Nonimmigrants enter the U.S. for a temporary period of time, and once in the U.S. are restricted to the activity or reason for which their visa was issued. They may have more than one type of nonimmigrant visa but are admitted in only one status.
Travelers from certain eligible countries may also be able to visit the U.S. without a visa through the Visa Waiver Program.
VISA WAIWER PROGRAM
The Visa Waiver Program enables nationals of certain countries to travel to the United States only for tourism or business for stays of 90 days or less without obtaining a visa. 27 countries participate in the Visa Waiver Program :
Andorra, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brunei, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany,?‚Â Iceland, Ireland, Italy,?‚Â Japan, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, the Netherlands New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, San Marino, Singapore, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom
CANADA
Citizens of Canada traveling to the U.S. do not require a nonimmigrant visa, except for the purposes differente of pleasure or bussiness travel.
Permanent residents ( landed immigrants) of Canada must have a nonimmigrant visa unless the permanent resident is a national of a country that participates in the visa waiver program and is seeking to enter the U.S. for 90 days or less under that program.
BERMUDA
Citizens of the British Overseas Territories of Bermuda do not require a visa unless they have a criminal ineligibility, or have previously violated the terms of their immigration status in the United States
