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Useful Definitions
Temporary Worker:
An alien worker coming to the United States to work for a temporary period of time. The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, the Immigration Nursing Relief Act of 1989, and the Immigration Act of 1990 revised existing classes and created new classes of nonimmigrant admission. Nonimmigrant worker classes of admission are as follows:
I ) H- IA-registered nurses;
2) H-IB-workers with "specialty occupations" admitted on the basis of professional education, skills, and/or equivalent experience;
3) H-2A-temporary agricultural workers coming to the United States to perform agricultural services or labor of a temporary or seasonal nature when services are unavailable in the United States;
4) H-2B-temporary non-agricultural workers coming to the United States to perform temporary services or labor if unemployed personscapable of performing the service or labor cannot be found inthe United States;
5) H-3-aliens coming temporarily to the United States as trainees, other than to receive graduate medical education or training;
6) 0-1, 0-2, 0-3-temporary workers with extraordinary ability or achievement in the sciences, arts, education, business, or athletics; those entering solely for the purpose of accompanying and assisting such workers; and their spouses and children;
7) P-1, P-2, P-3, P-4-athletes and entertainers at an internationally recognized level of performance; artists and entertainers under a reciprocal exchange program; artists and entertainers under a program that is "culturally unique;" and their spouses and children;
8) Q-participants in international cultural exchange programs;
9) R-1, R-2-temporary workers to perform work in religious occupations and their spouses and children. Temporary visitors in the Exchange Visitor, Intracompany Transferee, and U.S.-Canada or North American Free-Trade Agreement classes of nonimmigrant admission also are granted authorization to work temporarily in the United States. See other sections of this Glossary for definitions of these classes.
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