ANNEX O:

SUMMARY OF

THE U.S. PROPOSAL ON TEMPORARY ENTRY OF KEY

BUSINESS PERSONNEL

The objective of this proposal is to provide for the entry of persons at professional or

highly skilled levels through issuance of a special visa that allows for their expeditious

entry into countries and the United States to perform temporary work assignments. A new

special visa may be necessary to achieve this objective since there is no visa category in

the U.S. (nor in most other countries) that covers both intracorporate movement and work

for clients or customers in another country where there is no affiliate office of the parent

company.

This visa is necessary because companies and firms face time sensitive demands to

deploy professional human resources to service the needs of overseas customers and

clients. The growing volume of international business by U.S. firms has stretched their

resources to meet these needs, giving rise to the necessity to deploy personnel on a short 

term basis to work in foreign countries. Foreign firms themselves have the same needs in

the U.S. market. The current system of processing visa requests is so cumbersome that it

frequently means lost businesses to our companies and firms.

The attached model schedule explores the issue in greater detail.

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