U.S. Visas for Non-U.S. Artists
“Artists From Abroad” is the most highly regarded and authoritative on-line resource specifically focused on obtaining work authorizations for non-U.S. artists and arts professionals to perform in the United States. Produced and maintained by the League of American Orchestras and the Association of Performing Arts Professionals, in conjunction with nationally and internationally recognized experts to create this invaluable resource, which includes forms, templates, sample documents, and links to key government websites.
The website of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services. While not particularly user friendly, this is where you can download the most current visa petition forms, check for updates on all of the clever things they come up with to make the process worse, verify filing fees, and, if you want to go to sleep, read the official regulations. WARNING: Ignore their estimated processing times: they lie.
The website of the U.S. Department of State from which you can link to all of the U.S. Consulates in the world to find out what a specific consulate requires to apply for a visa. WARNING: ignore their estimated visa application processing estimates. Like USCIS, they make them up.
Whether you’re trying to get an emergency appointment at the U.S. Consulate in Paris or get a French artist into a Chinese consulate in Brazil, Viva La Visa is a U.K.-based company that specializes in assisting tour managers and artists with coordinating multi-national tours. They are our own “go to” folks for this.
An overview of the entire visa process which we wrote for the Winter 2010 edition of CMA Matters, a publication of Chamber Music America.
“SXSW’s Immigration Clauses Are ‘Not Standard,’ Lawyers Say””
A report on The PBS News Hour in which Brian Goldstein spoke on a hidden contract term in the showcase agreement for the South By Southwest Festival whereby the festival reserved the right to report non-U.S. artists to “immigration authorities” for anything that SXSW determined adversely affected the festival.
“We Rob America of Something Very Important When We Deny VISAS To Foreign Artists”
An article in The New York Observer in which Brian Goldstein was interviewed on the Trump’s administration’s new trend of randomly denying visas to artists from countries it doesn’t like.
A report on NPR in which Brian Goldstein spoke on new enforcement of musicians and bands performing illegally in the U.S. on tourist visas (B-1/B-2) or the ESTA program.