{"id":626,"date":"2025-12-17T10:36:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T17:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:fire.h50.us\/~jclimm\/?p=626"},"modified":"2025-12-17T10:36:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T17:36:16","slug":"state-department-create-new-b-1-visitor-category-specialized-trainer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fire.h50.us\/~jclimm\/state-department-create-new-b-1-visitor-category-specialized-trainer\/","title":{"rendered":"State Department Create New B-1 Visitor Category \u2013 Specialized Trainer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”Section” _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_text_color=”#000000″ hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]

It is speculated that as a result of the ICE raid at the Hyundai plant in Georgia, the State Department has created a new B-1 visitor category.<\/p>\n

9 FAM 402.2-5(E)(2) (U) Specialized Trainers<\/strong><\/p>\n

a. (U)<\/strong> An applicant may qualify as a specialized trainer eligible for a B-1 if they are traveling to the United States for a temporary period in order to provide training or transfer knowledge to U.S. workers, including on specialized or proprietary techniques, skills, or know-how necessary for industrial equipment, machinery, or processes that have been acquired or are sourced from a company outside the United States, in support of a qualifying project. In such cases the applicant must possess unique knowledge that is not widely available in the United States and must receive no remuneration from a U.S. source.<\/strong><\/p>\n

b. (U)<\/strong> B-1 visas issued in accordance with this guidance must be annotated as such. The annotation should read: “B-1 SPECIALIZED TRAINER”.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is speculated that as a result of the ICE raid at the Hyundai plant in Georgia, the State Department has created a new B-1 visitor category. 9 FAM 402.2-5(E)(2) (U) Specialized Trainers a. (U) An applicant may qualify as a specialized trainer eligible for a B-1 if they are traveling to the United States […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":627,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fire.h50.us\/~jclimm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fire.h50.us\/~jclimm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fire.h50.us\/~jclimm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fire.h50.us\/~jclimm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fire.h50.us\/~jclimm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fire.h50.us\/~jclimm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fire.h50.us\/~jclimm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fire.h50.us\/~jclimm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fire.h50.us\/~jclimm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fire.h50.us\/~jclimm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}