To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. NIEs for travelers from these Trans-Atlantic countries had been granted (at times with relative ease at some U.S. embassies and consular posts) based on previous State Department guidance. Under the prior guidance, executives, managers and specialists in the E-1 and E-2 (treaty traders and investors), H-1B (specialty occupation workers) and L-1 (intracompany transferees) visa categories, whose visit could be shown as likely to confer "substantial economic benefit" on the U.S., would often be approved. (For background, see this blog post ("Pursuing a National Interest Exception to the