How long does an E-2 visa last? The E-2, as we mentioned before, is a non-immigrant visa which means it does not give you permanent residency. The initial admission period, in other words the period that you are allowed to remain in the US as an E-2 once you’ve arrived here is two years. And at the end of that two-year period, you can either file an application to renew your status and extend it by an additional two years, and that’s done by filing a whole new application with supporting documents, the whole works, with the immigration service. That will extend your stay or your status for another two years.
Typically what we recommend, and each case is specific so we would need to know the circumstances of your particular case, but for many people, it makes much more sense instead of renewing through the Immigration Service, we advise them to go back to their home country and apply for a new visa. The visa is actually the stamp in your passport that allows you permission to come to the US and ask to be admitted. But visas for most countries are issued, the E-2 visas are issued for five years; whereas the admission period is only for two. That doesn’t mean that you can come in and stay for five years. What it does mean that you come in with your five-year visa, you are admitted for two years, and then you have to renew your status. But if your five-year visa is still valid, you just need to leave the country and come back in, and you’ll be readmitted for a new two-year period. And you can continue to do that throughout the validity, the five years that your visa is valid. So, that’s a quick and dirty summary of renewing your E-2 investor status.
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