Invitation Letter

• A personal or domestic employee who accompanies or follows to join an employer who is seeking admission into or, is already in the United States in B, E, F, H, I, J, L, M, O, or P non-immigrant status, must meet the following requirements:
• The employee has a residence abroad which he or she has no intention of abandoning (notwithstanding the fact that the employer may be in a non-immigrant status which does not require such a showing)
• The employee can demonstrate at least one year’s experience as a personal or domestic employee
• The employee has been employed abroad by the employer as a personal or domestic employee, for at least one year prior to the date of the employer’s admission to the United States
• If the employee-employer relationship existed immediately prior to the time of visa application, the employer can demonstrate that he or she has regularly employed (either year-round or seasonally) personal or domestic employees over a period of several years preceding the domestic employee’s visa application for a nonimmigrant B1 visa
• The employer and the employee have signed an employment contract which contains statements that the employer is guaranteed the minimum or prevailing wages, whichever is greater, and free room and board, and the employer will be the only provider of employment to the employee; and
• The employer must pay the domestic employee’s initial travel expenses to the United States, and subsequently to the employer’s onward assignment, or to the employee’s country of normal residence at the termination of the assignment.

Applicants traveling to the U.S. as domestic employees must provide:

1. General Application Package
2. Employment Contract which contains statements that the employer is guaranteed the minimum or prevailing wages, whichever is greater, and free room and board, and the employer will be the only provider of employment to the employee.
3. For additional documents, please see the conditions above.