Talent and Performance Visas
Onal Gallant provides services in all areas of immigration law, with a special focus on work visas, investor visas, academic visa tours, family-based immigration applications, and green card applications.
O-1A Visa
O-1A Visa, is a nonimmigrant worker visa issued to foreign nationals who have extraordinary abilities or achievements in fields such as sciences, education, business, or athletics.
Eligibility Requirements:
- The applicant must be a national of Australia
- Applicant must have a valid job offer from a U.S. Employer,
- Applicant must have a valid job offer from a U.S. Employer,
- The applicant must meet the necessary academic qualifying criteria (at least a bachelor's or higher degree)
USCIS acknowledges internationally recognized awards such as Nobel and Pulitzer Prizes, or Olympic medals as evidence of international success. However, if the applicant does not have such an award, s/he is expected to meet at least three of the following criteria to be eligible for O-1A Visa;
- If the applicant has an award that is of lesser importance. This could be recognized both nationally and internationally.
- If the applicant is a member of an organization that requires extraordinary ability or achievement to be a part of.
- If the applicant has considerable contributions to distinguished professional publications.
- If the applicant has a proven record of significant contribution to his/her field of expertise.
- If the applicant has various academic articles in his/her field.
- If the applicant has achieved commercial success or a large salary for his/her work
- If the applicant has been a judge evaluating the works of his/her peers.
- If the applicant has been in an essential position of a reputable organization related to his/her field.
Family Members:
The spouses and unmarried children (under the age of 21) can accompany the applicant with an O-3 Visa. Their O-3 Visa validity duration will be the same as the applicant's, and they will be subjected to the same limitations that you are subjected to.
Frequently Asked Questions:
Is there a cap on the number of O1-A Visa issued annually?
What is the duration of O1-A Visa?
Can I get an extension?
Can my spouse and children work in the U.S.?
Are the nationalities of my spouse and/or children must be same as mine?
Can my spouse and children request a change of status to or extension of stay in an E-1 if they are already in the U.S.?
Can my spouse work in the U.S.?
O-1A Visa
O-1A Visa, is a nonimmigrant worker visa issued to foreign nationals who have extraordinary abilities or achievements in fields such as sciences, education, business, or athletics.
Eligibility Requirements:
- The applicant must be a national of Australia
- Applicant must have a valid job offer from a U.S. Employer,
- Applicant must have a valid job offer from a U.S. Employer,
- The applicant must meet the necessary academic qualifying criteria (at least a bachelor's or higher degree)
USCIS acknowledges internationally recognized awards such as Nobel and Pulitzer Prizes, or Olympic medals as evidence of international success. However, if the applicant does not have such an award, s/he is expected to meet at least three of the following criteria to be eligible for O-1A Visa;
- If the applicant has an award that is of lesser importance. This could be recognized both nationally and internationally.
- If the applicant is a member of an organization that requires extraordinary ability or achievement to be a part of.
- If the applicant has considerable contributions to distinguished professional publications.
- If the applicant has a proven record of significant contribution to his/her field of expertise.
- If the applicant has various academic articles in his/her field.
- If the applicant has achieved commercial success or a large salary for his/her work
- If the applicant has been a judge evaluating the works of his/her peers.
- If the applicant has been in an essential position of a reputable organization related to his/her field.
Family Members:
The spouses and unmarried children (under the age of 21) can accompany the applicant with an O-3 Visa. Their O-3 Visa validity duration will be the same as the applicant's, and they will be subjected to the same limitations that you are subjected to.
Frequently Asked Questions:
Is there a cap on the number of O1-A Visa issued annually?
What is the duration of O1-A Visa?
Can I get an extension?
Can my spouse and children work in the U.S.?
Are the nationalities of my spouse and/or children must be same as mine?
Can my spouse and children request a change of status to or extension of stay in an E-1 if they are already in the U.S.?
Can my spouse work in the U.S.?
O-1A Visa
O-1A Visa, is a nonimmigrant worker visa issued to foreign nationals who have extraordinary abilities or achievements in fields such as sciences, education, business, or athletics.
Eligibility Requirements:
- The applicant must be a national of Australia
- Applicant must have a valid job offer from a U.S. Employer,
- Applicant must have a valid job offer from a U.S. Employer,
- The applicant must meet the necessary academic qualifying criteria (at least a bachelor's or higher degree)
USCIS acknowledges internationally recognized awards such as Nobel and Pulitzer Prizes, or Olympic medals as evidence of international success. However, if the applicant does not have such an award, s/he is expected to meet at least three of the following criteria to be eligible for O-1A Visa;
- If the applicant has an award that is of lesser importance. This could be recognized both nationally and internationally.
- If the applicant is a member of an organization that requires extraordinary ability or achievement to be a part of.
- If the applicant has considerable contributions to distinguished professional publications.
- If the applicant has a proven record of significant contribution to his/her field of expertise.
- If the applicant has various academic articles in his/her field.
- If the applicant has achieved commercial success or a large salary for his/her work
- If the applicant has been a judge evaluating the works of his/her peers.
- If the applicant has been in an essential position of a reputable organization related to his/her field.
Family Members:
The spouses and unmarried children (under the age of 21) can accompany the applicant with an O-3 Visa. Their O-3 Visa validity duration will be the same as the applicant's, and they will be subjected to the same limitations that you are subjected to.
Frequently Asked Questions:
Is there a cap on the number of O1-A Visa issued annually?
What is the duration of O1-A Visa?
Can I get an extension?
Can my spouse and children work in the U.S.?
Are the nationalities of my spouse and/or children must be same as mine?
Can my spouse and children request a change of status to or extension of stay in an E-1 if they are already in the U.S.?
Can my spouse work in the U.S.?
O-1A Visa
O-1A Visa, is a nonimmigrant worker visa issued to foreign nationals who have extraordinary abilities or achievements in fields such as sciences, education, business, or athletics.
Eligibility Requirements:
- The applicant must be a national of Australia
- Applicant must have a valid job offer from a U.S. Employer,
- Applicant must have a valid job offer from a U.S. Employer,
- The applicant must meet the necessary academic qualifying criteria (at least a bachelor's or higher degree)
USCIS acknowledges internationally recognized awards such as Nobel and Pulitzer Prizes, or Olympic medals as evidence of international success. However, if the applicant does not have such an award, s/he is expected to meet at least three of the following criteria to be eligible for O-1A Visa;
- If the applicant has an award that is of lesser importance. This could be recognized both nationally and internationally.
- If the applicant is a member of an organization that requires extraordinary ability or achievement to be a part of.
- If the applicant has considerable contributions to distinguished professional publications.
- If the applicant has a proven record of significant contribution to his/her field of expertise.
- If the applicant has various academic articles in his/her field.
- If the applicant has achieved commercial success or a large salary for his/her work
- If the applicant has been a judge evaluating the works of his/her peers.
- If the applicant has been in an essential position of a reputable organization related to his/her field.
Family Members:
The spouses and unmarried children (under the age of 21) can accompany the applicant with an O-3 Visa. Their O-3 Visa validity duration will be the same as the applicant's, and they will be subjected to the same limitations that you are subjected to.
Frequently Asked Questions:
Is there a cap on the number of O1-A Visa issued annually?
What is the duration of O1-A Visa?
Can I get an extension?
Can my spouse and children work in the U.S.?
Are the nationalities of my spouse and/or children must be same as mine?
Can my spouse and children request a change of status to or extension of stay in an E-1 if they are already in the U.S.?
Can my spouse work in the U.S.?
O-1A Visa
O-1A Visa, is a nonimmigrant worker visa issued to foreign nationals who have extraordinary abilities or achievements in fields such as sciences, education, business, or athletics.
Eligibility Requirements:
- The applicant must be a national of Australia
- Applicant must have a valid job offer from a U.S. Employer,
- Applicant must have a valid job offer from a U.S. Employer,
- The applicant must meet the necessary academic qualifying criteria (at least a bachelor's or higher degree)
USCIS acknowledges internationally recognized awards such as Nobel and Pulitzer Prizes, or Olympic medals as evidence of international success. However, if the applicant does not have such an award, s/he is expected to meet at least three of the following criteria to be eligible for O-1A Visa;
- If the applicant has an award that is of lesser importance. This could be recognized both nationally and internationally.
- If the applicant is a member of an organization that requires extraordinary ability or achievement to be a part of.
- If the applicant has considerable contributions to distinguished professional publications.
- If the applicant has a proven record of significant contribution to his/her field of expertise.
- If the applicant has various academic articles in his/her field.
- If the applicant has achieved commercial success or a large salary for his/her work
- If the applicant has been a judge evaluating the works of his/her peers.
- If the applicant has been in an essential position of a reputable organization related to his/her field.
Family Members:
The spouses and unmarried children (under the age of 21) can accompany the applicant with an O-3 Visa. Their O-3 Visa validity duration will be the same as the applicant's, and they will be subjected to the same limitations that you are subjected to.