Description

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1. CNMI-Only transitional worker

2. Treaty traders and qualified employees.

3. Treaty investors and qualified employees.

4. Long-term foreign investors in the CNMI

5. Certain "specialty occupation" professionals from Australia.

6. Workers in a specialty occupation and the following sub-classifications: H-1B1 - Free Trade Agreement workers in a specialty occupation from Chile and Singapore; H-1B2 - Specialty occupations related to Department of Defense Cooperative Research and Development projects or Co-production projects; H-1B3 - Fashion models of distinguished merit and ability.

7. Registered nurses working in a health professional shortage area as determined by the U.S. Department of Labor.

8. Temporary or seasonal agricultural workers.

9. Temporary non-agricultural workers.

10. Trainees other than medical or academic. This classification also applies to practical training in the education of handicapped children.

11. Representatives of foreign press, radio, film or other foreign information media.

12. Intracompany transferees in managerial or executive positions.

13. Intracompany transferees in positions utilizing specialized knowledge.

14. Persons with extraordinary ability in sciences, arts, education, business, or athletics and motion picture or TV production.

15. Persons accompanying solely to assist an O-1 nonimmigrant.

16. Internationally recognized athletes.

17. Internationally recognized entertainers or members of internationally recognized entertainment groups.

18. Individual performer or part of a group entering to perform under a reciprocal exchange program.

19. Artists or entertainers, either an individual or group, to perform, teach, or coach under a program that is culturally unique.

20. Persons participating in an international cultural exchange program for the purpose of providing practical training, employment, and to share the history, culture, and traditions of the noncitizen's home country.

21. Religious workers.

22. North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) temporary professionals from Mexico and Canada.