Visa Types
Media/Journalists
Visa Type | Description | Documents to bring |
I | Representatives of foreign information media, representatives of a foreign tourist bureau, or film crew members holding professional journalism credentials and intending to work on news or non-commercial documentaries
| DS-156, DS-157 (males between 16 and 45 and all applicants born in/or citizens of Iran, North Korea, Cuba, Sudan, Syria and Libya.)
Press Card |
This includes aliens whose activities are essential to the foreign information media function; for example, media reporters, media film crews, video editors, and persons in similar occupations.
The I visa classification may be accorded not only to primary employees of foreign information media engaged in filming a news event or documentary, but also to the employees of independent production companies when those employees hold a credential issued by a professional journalistic association.
Spouse and children accompanying, or following to join, an alien qualified for an I visa may also receive the I classification.