Supervising hardware installation when traveling to the US using VWP
I fly to Florida on Tuesday for a fortnights holiday and have been asked by my employer to return 6 days after I return to supervise installation of video walls supplied by a UK company sold to an American company and fitted Into shopping malls across America. This will be for 3-4 weeks depending on progress.
American labor will be used to install but for warranty we have to supervise correct installation as these are big units. We.do this all over the world my last trip was to Qatar for them and was exactly the same deal we supervised installation.
I am British myself and already have an ESTA for the holiday will this suffice for the work and would I need to notify them I am returning?
Best Answer
Nobody needs to be notified and if I am reading the business visa flier correctly then this is totally allowed:
Engineer(s) install, service or repair commercial or industrial equipment or machinery sold by a non-U.S. company to a U.S. buyer, when specifically required by the purchase contract. Installation cannot include construction work, except for supervision or training of U.S. workers to perform construction.
you said "supplied by a UK company sold to an American company" and "supervise". Now, supervision is allowed even for construction not to mention "commerical equipment".
Make sure you have the contract saying supervision is required and you are good to go.
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