Do you know what people were doing before Os and Ps, what
categories they would use?
Yeah, the H-1B distinguished Merit and ability was what there
was and it was a loose and bad fit and the H-1B regulations
just don't accommodate the way so many people work.
I mean this was in the era many decades before the Neufeld
memo, but The H-1B category is tied to the idea that you
have one job at one employer and you have a salary and there's
employer-employee relationship and their salary and benefits
and you get a W-2 and in the Arts and in sports and design
and lots of fields people don't work like that and the beauty
of the O & P Visa categories is they were designed to accommodate
a huge array of different types of work arrangements and
even in this extraordinary tight unforgiving adjudications
climate that we're in now it is still true that if somebody
qualifies as a person of extraordinary ability or someone
doing something called truly unique.
They can get paid based on ticket sales.
They can get paid on commission.
They can get paid piece work or hourly or union scale.
There are the arrangements are as vast as human imagination.
And as long as you specify what it is, it's allowed because
those categories were created to accommodate the way artists
and athletes work, which is very often not in Anna.
Lawyer employee said, you know one of the problems that emerges
is the itinerary portion of the session covid-19.
But even before that, the flexibility is needed.
Sometimes they're really flexible USCIS officer.
Sometimes they get really hardcore. What has been your experience
with how loose you could you could explain the itinerary,
especially when you have a concert in the future? I don't know if
you were practicing back before the 09 memos, but There was
a brief period when they decided okay, there's this fixed
period of time and if you have a gap between events of 45
days, then we're denying it or we're just cutting off your
itinerary and you get your three and a half months up until
that event.
And then there's a gap too big so you just get until that
fortune and many Industries pushed back and said, are you
insane and the service actually listened to Like that time,
oh the good old days.
And so there's a bit of flexibility.
So it's there's no hard and fast rule.
It's not 30 days or 45 days or even 60 days that it has to
make sense and you have to be obviously earning enough in
your field to make a living.
Yeah.
They're not going to give you a work visa to do one gig every
two months and you know freelancing at McDonald's or whatever
you want to do in your the rest of your time that's not what
those visas are for you have to show that you're coming here
to do paid work and that you are getting paid enough to not
illegally do other work.
