The US O-2 visa is a non-immigrant visa and specially offered to support O-1 visa holder in the fields of athletics, entertainment, motion pictures and television production industries.
Are an integral part of the actual performance of the O-1 principal visa holder
To be eligible for US O-2 visa, an applicant must prove his role regarding the performance of the O-1 visa holder.
Will work and provide support only to the O-1 visa holder
An O-2 visa holder must ensure that their availability is only meant for O-1 visa holders and nothing else.
Have critical skills and experience that are not of a general nature and cannot be performed by US citizens
An US O-2 visa holder needs to prove that their selection is purely on the basis of their skills and experience, which doesn’t come into general nature category and that, also cannot be performed by US citizens.
They maintain a foreign residence they do not intend to abandon
As the US O-2 visa is a non-immigrant category visa. Hence, O-2 visa holders must ensure about maintaining their foreign residence and they do not intend to abandon in any critical situation from United States and that their work in United States is temporary. O-2 visa holders must also ensure that the work for which they are entering in United States will be purely on temporary basis and they will return to their own country once their work is finished.
