VietNam example:
A. Service Sales Persons Viet Nam extends its commitments under this category to all Parties that have made commitments under the headings of:
Business Visitors
Service Sales Persons
B. Intra-Corporate Transferees
1. Viet Nam extends its commitments under this category to all Parties that have made commitments under the heading of:
Intra-Corporate Transferees
2. Viet Nam shall grant temporary entry to Intra-Corporate Transferees, as defined below, working in services sectors and sub-sectors if Viet Nam undertook commitments in the WTO (WT/ACC/VNM/48/
Add. 2) without requiring these business persons to obtain a work permit or an equivalent requirement as a condition of temporary entry.
3. Viet Nam may, upon application, grant the right of temporary entry to the accompanying spouse or dependents of an Intra-Corporate Transferee of another Party.
4. Upon application, Intra-Corporate Transferees and, if relevant, their spouses and dependents may be issued with temporary residence cards, or equivalent multiple entry rights.
C. Persons Responsible for Setting up a Commercial Presence
1. Viet Nam extends its commitments under this category to all Parties that have made commitments under the headings of:
Independent Executives
Other Personnel
Persons Responsible for Setting Up a Commercial Presence
Investors
2. Viet Nam may, upon application, grant the right of entry to the accompanying spouse or dependents of a Person responsible for Setting up a Commercial Presence of another Party.
3. Upon application, Persons responsible for Setting up a Commercial Presence and, if relevant, their spouses and dependents may be issued with temporary residence cards, or equivalent multiple entry rights.
E. Other Personnel
Viet Nam extends its commitments under this category to all Parties that have made commitments under the headings of:
Independent Executives
Other Personnel
Persons Responsible for Setting Up a Commercial Presence
Investors
E. Contractual Service Suppliers (CSS)
1. Viet Nam extends its commitments under this category to all Parties that have made commitments under the headings of:
Contractual Service Suppliers
Independent Professionals
Installers/Servicers
Professionals
2. Viet Nam may, upon application, grant the right of temporary entry to the accompanying spouse or dependents of a Contractual Service Supplier of another Party.
3. Upon application, Contractual Service Suppliers and, if relevant, their spouses and dependents may be issued with temporary residence cards, or equivalent multiple entry rights.
Note this brief entry from the above post on ‘temporary entry’:
“2. Viet Nam shall grant temporary entry to Intra-Corporate Transferees, as defined below, working in services sectors and sub-sectors if Viet Nam undertook commitments in the WTO (WT/ACC/VNM/48/
Add. 2) without requiring these business persons to obtain a work permit or an equivalent requirement as a condition of temporary entry.”
So, if VietNam or other signatory has this language in the Appendix 12A boilerplate, any number of persons who fall under any other WTO agreement (WT/ACC/VNM/48/Add.) can come in for any reason.
I have not verified whether this statement is in all the other countries’ PDFs.
‘Temporary Entry’ consists of 3 month to 1 year entry. No mention is made of renewals or other visa/student provisions.
Thanks, you've done a lot of research and I do thank you. The Temporary Entry list I saw was just:
--and I'm not seeing any requirements for changes in U.S. visa law. This may be because existing U.S. law already complies but I'd have thot that other countries would've at least required the U.S. promise to not change it.
Where we are now though is that it would've been useful if we'd only found an actual requirement forcing the U.S. to allow all foreign workers to move freely into the U.S. but the only changes we're finding so far are things other countries are going to do --probably with or without the U.S. signing on --but that's their business anyway I guess.
Just the same thanks again for the input.