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R1 Religious Visa

The R1 visa is a visa of non-immigrant visa to the religious workmen to work in the USA for a period up to 5 years and apply thereafter for the green card for the permanent residence. The religious workmen include the ministers for the religion who are authorized by denomination to lead the religious worship and to carry out other functions, usually carried out by members of the clergy.

The visa of R can be available for the following individuals: Ministers: identified religious denomination must have authorized the candidate to lead the religious worship and to carry out other functions usually carried out by the authorized members of the clergy of this religion. The licenses, the certificates of classification, official letter etc can serve obviously as such qualifications. Leaders of the Salvation Army, deacons and experts of Christian Science can as well be considered ministers.

A religious vocation means to live with the religious life, shown by the demonstration of a perpetual engagement, such as nuns, monks, and brothers and sisters monk. A religious trade means usual interlocking in an activity which is connected to a traditional religious function. The examples include the workmen, the religious instructors or cantors, workmen in the religious hospitals, the missionaries, the religious translators or the religious organizers. It does not include gatekeepers, workmen of maintenance, clerks, stockbreeders of funds, legal consultants of the donations or trades similar. the activity must incarnate the principles of the religion and to have the religious significance, being connected mainly, if not exclusively, on the subjects of the spirit while they apply to the religion.

A religious denomination generally should have a formal code of doctrines and discipline, services and religious ceremonies, the certain faith and an identified form or worship, religious gatherings and established places of worship. However, if an intercommunity religious organization is free from taxes, it can also be treated like religious denomination. If you are located apart from the USA, you can apply directly to the consulate of the USA for the visa of R. However, if you are already in the USA, the religious organization must classify the petition for a change of statute, the prolongation of the stay, or the change of employment.

Acceptability -You are eligible to request the R1 visa if: You are a member of a religious denomination having a true non-profit-making religious organization in the USA; The religious denomination and its subsidiary company, if it is suitable, are free of the imposition or the religious denomination qualifies for the statute free from taxes; You were a member of the denomination during two years right before the admission; You enter the United States only to continue the vocation of a minister of this denomination on request of the organization, the applicant enters the United States to work in a vocation or a trade for the denomination.

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