TREATY INVESTORS ("E-2")

The United States has treaties with over 60 countries which permit nationals of those countries to invest a substantial amount of capital in a bona fide enterprise in the U.S, or to be employed as an executive, supervisor or essential employee in an enterprise which is owned by a treaty national.

These countries are as follows:

 

Albania	Argentina	Armenia	Australia	Austria	Bangladesh
Belgium	Bosnia-Herzegovina	Bulgaria	Cameroon	Canada	China (Taiwan)
Colombia	Congo (Brazzaville)	Congo (Kinshasa)	Costa Rica	Czech Republic	Ecuador
Egypt	Estonia	Ethiopia	Finland	France	Georgia
Germany	Grenada	Iran	Ireland	Italy	Jamaica
Japan	Kazakhstan	(South) Korea	Kyrgyzstan	Latvia	Liberia
Luxembourg	Mexico	Moldovia	Mongolia	Morocco	Netherlands
Norway	Oman	Pakistan	Panama	Philippines	Poland
Romania	Senegal	Slovakia	Sri Lanka	Suriname	Sweden
Swtizerland	Thailand	Togo	Trinidad & Tobago	Tunisia	Turkey
Ukraine	United Kingdom	Yugoslavia

The following thirteen (13) treaties have yet to enter into force, either because the treaties have not yet been ratified or because there has not been a formal exchange of instruments of ratification: Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bolivia, Croatia, El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Jordan, Lithuania, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Russia and Uzbekistan.