[Tango-L] Changes by Immigration Authorities with respect to the granting of P & O Visas

[Huck Kennedy]

On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 7:59 AM, chicagomilonguero
<chicagomilonguero at yahoo.com> wrote:
> A recent policy change by the US Citizenship and Immigration Service could create considerable challenges for tango instructors interested in touring the United States. As of October 7th, visa petitions may not be filed by a single employer on behalf of multiple arts organizations for artists coming to the U.S. for an itinerary of events, unless the petitioning employer is in the business of being an an agent. As a result, if an artist plans to travel to the U.S. for multiple engagements in one or more cities (unless one of the petitioning employers is legally an agent and obtains permission to file as the primary petitioner on the other arts organizations behalf), each venue must file a separate visa petition.
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> I believe a number of tango instructors have had difficulties in obtaining their work visas under this new policies.   A number of organizations that deal with the arts and dance are trying to challenge the change in this policy.  It is also not clear what will suffice the "agent" definition.

     No, the only thing clear is that our government can be a real
jerk at times.  There, I said it.

Huck