arenddearend
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Hi,
I am in the US on an L-1 visa, my wife L-2 and has EAD. She currently works indirectly for a foreign government body (through US temp company). Her foreign colleagues that came to the US for this government function all have A - visa (A2). She also has US (national or green card) colleagues who obviously do not need a visa, but they need to pay their own payroll taxes because the foreign government does not withold taxes.
They want to make her function permanent but she is told she can ONLY work there if she gets an A-2 visa, which would be quite painful, since we both would need to transfer from L to A and even if we wouldnt need to do it both, we'd be on different visa. She is told this is a US state dept requirement.
I wonder if this is the case, however. Is there any difference between her (L2/EAD) and a US national in terms of restrictions on employment - other than that it expires as soon as my L-1 expires?
I am in the US on an L-1 visa, my wife L-2 and has EAD. She currently works indirectly for a foreign government body (through US temp company). Her foreign colleagues that came to the US for this government function all have A - visa (A2). She also has US (national or green card) colleagues who obviously do not need a visa, but they need to pay their own payroll taxes because the foreign government does not withold taxes.
They want to make her function permanent but she is told she can ONLY work there if she gets an A-2 visa, which would be quite painful, since we both would need to transfer from L to A and even if we wouldnt need to do it both, we'd be on different visa. She is told this is a US state dept requirement.
I wonder if this is the case, however. Is there any difference between her (L2/EAD) and a US national in terms of restrictions on employment - other than that it expires as soon as my L-1 expires?
