The ESTA, or Electronic System for Travel Authorization, is not a visa at all, but a simple online authorization that must be obtained by any citizen of one of the 39 participant countries of the Visa Waiver Program of the United States.

The B2 Visitor visa is one of the most generous and welcoming of non- immigrant visas for entering the United States. Once issued, it is valid for 10 years of multiple entries, with each visit as long as six months.

You can apply for the J1 College and University visa if you’re a student or have recently graduated, or if you are seeking an internship to satisfy a degree requirement in your home country.

The Au Pair Visa encourage people from other cultures to visit the USA. The Au Pair program offers you a warm, rewarding and enjoyable intercultural opportunity to live and contribute as part of an American family while working and studying.

The Summer Work Travel Program (SWTP) is undeniably one of the most popular exchange programs in the US Exchange Visitor Program. Of the 8.3 million people who have entered the US since 1987 on a J-1 exchange visitor visa, over 2.3 million have been exchange students in the Summer Work Travel Program.

The Trainee Program represents a distinctive opportunity to young professionals all over the world to visit the United States to both advance their skills and enjoy USA’s life and culture.

The Secondary School Student Program (SSSP) is a unique opportunity for secondary school students from all over the world to travel to the USA and study at an accredited public or private high school for an academic semester or year while living with an American host family or an approved boarding school.

Under the Intern Program, non-US college and university students or recent graduates can come to the United States to American culture and lifestyles while receiving hands-on experience in their chosen professional, occupational or business area of study field as an intern with a company.

The F1 Student visa would be your choice for entering the United States to pursue an academic course of study (rather than a vocational course of training). With the F1 visa, you can be a full-time student at an accredited college, university, seminary, conservatory, academic high school, elementary school or other academic institution, or else in an English language training program

The M1 Student visa would be your choice for entering the United States to pursue a course of non-academic or vocational training. Your purpose would be to master a certain skill rather than obtain an academic degree, diploma or certificate. At the end of course, you may receive a certification of attendance and mastery.

The Research Scholar Program was designed to promote the free flow and exchange of ideas, research, mutual enrichment and linkages between research and academic institutions in the United States and foreign countries through the participation of their professors, researchers, post- or pre-doctoral students, graduate students and professionals such as doctors and attorneys.

The Camp Counselor Program is a great opportunity for post-secondary students, youth workers and teachers to share their culture and ideas with the people of the United States in camp settings throughout the country.

You probably know it better as the ‘Green Card Lottery’. The Diversity Visa is one of the most visible and durable signs of the United States’ commitment to having a population as ethnically diverse as possible. If you are from a country that is not very well represented in the United States ethnic mix and can meet a few other straightforward but strict conditions, you can enter the ‘Green Card Lottery’.