In an announcement made by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), US have come out with an ultimate regulation in the Federal Register for Investor Visas. The rule is decked with a non-immigrant investor visa categorization in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, also known as CNMI. The E-2 CNMI Investor Visa finds its validity in the CNMI and is issued for a span of twenty four months.

In accordance with the “E-2 CNMI Investor Visa”, overseas long-term applicants are decked with the right to live in the CNMI through December 2014. The applications for this class of visas would be accepted by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services from January 18, 2011 onwards. Applications received before this date would face rejection.

Under the regulations of the E-2 CNMI Investor Visa, it would be probable for the spouse and children of the applicant to make applications for the visas under the “dependant” category.

To qualify under this category, the applicant is required to fulfill certain consents. The first essential requirement is that the applicant ought to have been admitted to the CNMI with a continuing investor visa underneath the immigration regulations of CNMI before Nov. 28, 2009. In addition to this, it is mandatory for them to have continued residency in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands under the status of ling-term investor.

The visa allows qualified overseas long-term investors having a minimum of $50,000 (rather than $150,000) in funds to stay in the CNMI through Dec. 31, 2014.