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How do all those celebrities get residency permits for the U.S.?!?
I am asking this question as someone who doesn't have a permanent residency permit and am wondering how all these foreign celebrities (mostly Brits) are able to live in the U.S. seemingly without any efforts.
If you're a movie star you're not really considered employed I wouldn't say at least not regularly (normally) neither as a model or musician. Also I don't think they all have immediate relatives who are U.S. citizens.
Do they usually stay the three months they are allowed to by the visa waiver program then go back to their home country for a weekend and enter again for 90 days or is there a special treatment for celebrities?!
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- KittysueLv 77 years agoFavorite Answer
They get an O visa which is for people with 'extraordinary' abilities in the arts. That's how actors, musicians, ballerinas, fashion photographers, painters, directors, screenwriters, etc get to move to the US. As long as they are relatively famous in their own country or have won any sort of award or been in a film that went to a top global film festival (Sundance, Venice, Berlin, Toronto), they can get an O visa quite easily. If you are a British actor who has starred in a show nominated for a BAFTA or have been nominated for a BRIT award as a musician or have sold out Wembley stadium, you would have no problem qualifying for the O visa. Or if you are a tv presenter on a programme that has 5 million viewers like X Factor, again it would be easy to get an O visa
Models come on an HB-3 visa which is specifically for foreign models. To qualify they have to already have been signed to an agency in their home country and have a minimum of 8 examples of their work that has appeared nationally and have to be sponsored by a US agency that wants to represent them
- lareLv 77 years ago
while an actor may not be before a camera every day, they do have an employer, aka as a studio. it is the employer that sponsors work visas. you don't have to work everyday to keep a work visa either. however when it expires (after a year) it can only be renewed by the employer, not the celeb. there is no "path to green card" as part of a work visa. by the way, a lot of Americans work overseas as well. they don't get permanent resident status as a result of a work visa either.
