I think it depends completely on the nationality of the speaker. My wife brought in a speaker from Russia for two events that she organized and each time had to go through extensive paperwork with the INS and obtain a special visa.
Dr. Kenneth Wayne, Curator
Albright-Knox Art Gallery
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Buffalo, NY 14222
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From: Ciotola, Nicholas P. [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 9:28 AM
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Subject: honoraria to foreign speakers
All:
Does anyone have any experience with providing an honorarium payment
(totaling no more than several thousand dollars) to a museum speaker who is
a citizen of another country? Does the speaker need to have a working visa
or can he or she be paid simply as a visitor to the U.S., i.e. the visa
process avoided completely.
Obviously, INS is the place to contact, but I wonder if anyone has any
specific experience in this area. The red tape for getting a visa is such
that I hope a simpler solution is available.
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Thank you,
Nicholas P. Ciotola
Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania
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