Timeline for Author visiting the USA for vacation under the Visa Waiver Program - Can they write?
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| May 14, 2016 at 12:56 | vote | accept | t1021 | ||
| May 12, 2016 at 11:38 | comment | added | hmakholm left over Monica | (On the other hand the fact that "professional artistic activity" is not in the current 9 FAM 402.2-5(B) may reflect an explicit amendment to the rules since the above document was written). | |
| May 12, 2016 at 11:31 | comment | added | hmakholm left over Monica | Note also this document apparently from the U.S. Department of Justice, which explicitly lists "professional artistic activity (e.g. music recording, artistic work such as painting, sculpture, or photography) that do not involved income from an US source" -- writing seems to be fairly analogous to that. | |
| May 11, 2016 at 20:41 | comment | added | t1021 | Thanks for your informative answer. It seems to match up with what I was reading, but it's good to have some corroboration. Posing a further question related to the above, would receiving payment from existing books be allowable if the ebooks are sold through Amazon and Smashwords? These websites put aside some portion of profits for US taxes, and then pay directly into either paypal or abank account. What I've read indicates this "passive income" is allowable. In your, and others opinion, this wouldn't cause a problem in the above case of visiting for tourism either, would it? | |
| May 11, 2016 at 16:31 | history | answered | Nean Der Thal | CC BY-SA 3.0 |