Although more than 80 countries have E treaties, recently released statistics show that a relative few use most of the visas. Worldwide, in fiscal year (FY) 2020, the nonimmigrant visa workload for E-2s was 26,759, with 23,493 issued and 3,266 refused. Japan was the country with the most E-2 visa approvals in FY 2020 by far (8,654), followed by Canada (2,500), South Korea (1,973), Germany (1,487), France (1,279), and Great Britain and Northern Ireland (1,275). The totals by area in FY 2020 include Africa (69), Asia (11,557), Europe (7,427), North American (3,449), Oceania (300), and South America (691). Background: The E Visa E visas for temporary workers include several categories: Treaty traders (E-1) conduct substantial trade in goods, including but not limited to services and technology, mainly between the United States and their country of origin of which they are citizens or nationals. Treaty investors (E-2) invest a substantial amount of money and direct the operations of an enterprise in which they have invested or are actively investing. (There is a different classification, E-2 CNMI-Only Investors, for those from the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.) Australian specialty occupation workers (E-3) perform services in a specialty occupation. According to U.S. […]