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You can assist conferences with a B1 visa. "Traveling for a scientific, educational, professional or business convention, or a conference on specific dates" is
by partycoder 10y ago
You can assist conferences with a B1 visa.
"Traveling for a scientific, educational, professional or business convention, or a conference on specific dates" is an intended use case of the visa type. (https://www.uscis.gov/working-united-states/temporary-visitors-business/b-1-temporary-business-visitor https://www.uscis.gov/working-united-states/temporary-visito...)
However, you cannot get paid for it. In addition the conference must not be about recruiting.
- peferron 10y agoWrong. https://travel.state.gov/content/dam/visas/BusinessVisa%20Purpose%20Listings%20March%202014%20flier.pdf https://travel.state.gov/content/dam/visas/BusinessVisa%20Pu... > Lecturer or speaker: If honorarium will be received, ... [list of conditions that the scholar in the article visibly meets]. It baffles my mind why multiple people in this HN thread keep suggesting that the scholar in the article didn't have an appropriate visa.
- partycoder 10y agoThanks for pointing it out.