E-2: Essential Employee

E-2 Visa is a Non-Immigrant Visa which allows employees of Treaty Investors to live and work in the United States. Where the E-2 visa applicant is an employee rather than an investor that employee must be of the same Nationality of the investor OR Company/Enterprise that has majority ownership of the Business/enterprise.

♦ Have the same nationality as the principal foreign employer; and
♦ Is coming to the United States to engage in duties of an Executive or Supervisory Character; or
♦ If employed in a non-executive or non-supervisory position, the employee has Special Qualifications that make his or her services essential to the efficient operation of the business enterprise.