Visa for Thai chef

[Thailand Lovers 0]

Since bringing my wife to the United States on a fiancée visa four years ago, we have opened a Thai restaurant in my hometown in Pennsylvania. The restaurant is doing well, and in fact we recently moved to a larger location so now need to hire an additional chef/cook by August. Finding another qualified Thai chef/cook in Pennsylvania has proven impossible. I am in Thailand now and will remain here until June 30. Being in Thailand itself, I have a access to a large pool of potential applicants. So I would like to find a chef/cook while I am here and begin the visa process.

My two main questions for getting started are:

• Which type of visa I should be aiming for?
• What are the qualities of a chef/cook that would make him the most likely to get that visa?

I read the information about E-2 visas here and more general info here but I am confused about which visa applies in our case. I am a US citizen and my wife and co-owner is Thai and waiting for the oath ceremony but not yet a US citizen.

Do I need to hire an immigration attorney? I did my wife's fiancée visa by myself (with much help from this great website). But in this case I don't know where to begin since I don't even know which visa to aim for.

[Boiler 45,318]

H1b is the usual one, applications in April for start October 2014.

The Chef would not happen to be a relative would they?

Work Visa's are invariably handled by Lawyers specialising in this area.

Edited June 10, 2013 by Boiler

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Since bringing my wife to the United States on a fiancée visa four years ago, we have opened a Thai restaurant in my hometown in Pennsylvania. The restaurant is doing well, and in fact we recently moved to a larger location so now need to hire an additional chef/cook by August. Finding another qualified Thai chef/cook in Pennsylvania has proven impossible. I am in Thailand now and will remain here until June 30. Being in Thailand itself, I have a access to a large pool of potential applicants. So I would like to find a chef/cook while I am here and begin the visa process.

My two main questions for getting started are:

• Which type of visa I should be aiming for?
• What are the qualities of a chef/cook that would make him the most likely to get that visa?

I read the information about E-2 visas here and more general info here but I am confused about which visa applies in our case. I am a US citizen and my wife and co-owner is Thai and waiting for the oath ceremony but not yet a US citizen.

Do I need to hire an immigration attorney? I did my wife's fiancée visa by myself (with much help from this great website). But in this case I don't know where to begin since I don't even know which visa to aim for.

I don't know anything about this work visa subject but I think it will be very difficult to obtain from Thailand. The problem is the level of fraud. During the 5 times I was in the U S embassy my husband and I saw quite a few denials for these work visas. The questioning we heard was very difficult.

Have you tried to find a cook here in the USA? A friend lives near Thai Town in the L A area and knows many people that work as cooks or chiefs for example. There are web sites connect to Thai Town where people look for these types of jobs.

[Lisa Anderson 0]

Since bringing my wife to the United States on a fiancée visa four years ago, we have opened a Thai restaurant in my hometown in Pennsylvania. The restaurant is doing well, and in fact we recently moved to a larger location so now need to hire an additional chef/cook by August. Finding another qualified Thai chef/cook in Pennsylvania has proven impossible. I am in Thailand now and will remain here until June 30. Being in Thailand itself, I have a access to a large pool of potential applicants. So I would like to find a chef/cook while I am here and begin the visa process.

My two main questions for getting started are:

• Which type of visa I should be aiming for?
• What are the qualities of a chef/cook that would make him the most likely to get that visa?

I read the information about E-2 visas here and more general info here but I am confused about which visa applies in our case. I am a US citizen and my wife and co-owner is Thai and waiting for the oath ceremony but not yet a US citizen.

Do I need to hire an immigration attorney? I did my wife's fiancée visa by myself (with much help from this great website). But in this case I don't know where to begin since I don't even know which visa to aim for.

The E2 visa is very complicated and you definitely speak with an attorney. The E-2 visa as well as other work visas are a in a whole different league as compared to the fiancée visa.

[Boiler 45,318]

E2 does not apply more succinctly.