Please complete this questionnaire. This questionnaire is not a government form; we use it to help us get to know the artist, and the information you supply informs our research. The more thoroughly you complete this form, the more efficiently we we be able to help you. Please answer as completely, honestly, and accurately as you can.

After you complete these forms, several things will happen:

(1) You will receive an email from our staff requesting that you confirm the personnel information you have submitted.
(2) Once you have confirmed the personnel information, you will receive an invoice with instructions regarding payment.
(3) You will receive an email from your case manager, describing the documents we will need from you to complete your visa petition.

• 1. Has the artist won or been nominated for any major awards or prizes for its work, like a Grammy Award or your country's similar award? If "YES":
  Yes No
  a) please supply the name of the most significant award:
  b) please supply a link about you winning the award:
  c) please supply a link about the award:
• 2. Has the group been written about in important national or international newspapers, magazines, or websites?
  Yes No
  If yes, please supply a list of URLs.
  

  Your home domestic press is probably the most impressive, so we should have some of that. However, we also have to prove that you are an "international artist," so we need press that is not from your home country. Obviously, the more impressive the better, but anything helps. It need not be in English. We need old and new press. We have to prove that you are an artist with sustained success. To do this we need a mixture of press from throughout your career. Ideally, please send us six good reviews, features, or interviews from your country, and six pieces from other countries (as many other countries as possible). In total you should be sending us about twelve pieces of press.
  
  
• 3. Is there a significant amount of press (12 substantial pieces or more) about the artist that is already in English?
  Yes No
• 4. Please list the full name and occupation of three important individuals who would be willing to write testimonial letters about the artist. These can be friends or business acquaintances, but the authors cannot have a direct financial interest in the artists' securing a visa, and they should be able to speak about how the work of the artist is culturally unique. These people should be able to write from a position of authority on the subject, so they should be important (or important sounding) in the industry.