The P-2 visa can be granted for up to 1 year. P-2 visa allow also the essential support personnel to enter along with the group (make up artists, sound engineers, tailors, hairdressers, movers, etc.)

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Requirements For Getting P-2 Visa As An individual or as a Group
The P-2 visa can be used various artists that are coming to perform in the United States
individually or as a group.
To bring artist or any other entertainers under the P-2 visa, an entertaining company must first
establish or participate in a reciprocal exchange program with a US based organization. This is
not an easy requirement to meet. Practically speaking, there should be a large number of
musicians travel back and forth to perform in order to justify the establishment of such
program. The US Entertaining companies can use the programs that are already in place. When
there are such public programs, the petitioning company must provide the name of the
program and any other relevant documents.
The advisory opinion will be also required for a P-2 visa application from a labor organization or
a peer group that signed the reciprocal exchange agreement.
The artists must have the skill comparable to those of the U.S. musicians that go to the given
country under the reciprocal program.
In terms of the qualifications of the artists, the requirement is much lower than the
requirements the P-1 and P-3 visa applicants must meet (International fame of the P-1 Groups

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or Culturally unique skills of the P-3 Entertainers). The reciprocal exchange program must be in
place and the labor union must sign off of it. That’s it.
A reciprocal exchange program is a program negotiated between an organization in the US and
an organization in a given country. The only public programs are signed between the US and
Canada, Australia, New Zealand. The programs strive to sustain similarity of employment terms
and the level of artists exchanged, and numbers. A labor organization must have been involved
in negotiating the program, or at least did not object to the establishment.
The P-2 visa can be granted for up to 1 year. P-2 visa allow also the essential support personnel
to enter along with the group (make up artists, sound engineers, tailors, hairdressers, movers,
etc. ) The artists’ family member may enter the US and stay as long as the P-2 entertainers
themselves. The family members are not allowed to work, though.
There are could be situations when additional performances need to be added to the itinerary
or, in opposite, some events have been cancelled. There is no need to do anything about it as
far as the USCIS’ concern, as long as the performances remain in the same timeframe (the time
of the visa validity). If more time is needed to take the artists to a few more performances, an
extension of status petition must be filed to reflect that change and request USCIS to approve
the longer stay. If an extension is not filed, the artists may have problems entering America in
the future.
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