Business Facilitation Program: Guidelines for Members
- BBFP applicants must be direct-hire employees of member companies. Contractors and individuals sponsored by the company do not qualify for BFP appointments.
- Applicants must be travelers conducting business for the member company in Mexico. Applicants applying to travel to the U.S. for personal reasons do not qualify for appointments under BFP; however, family members, including spouses and children (under 21 and unmarried) can use the BFP program when travel is linked to travel an employee is making for their company.
- Applicants must carry a BFP referral form printed on company letterhead and signed by a BFP authorized signatory. We strongly encourage you to differentiate your BFP cover letter with a seal, variance of color, serial number, etc.
- You can update your letterhead or signatories at any time. In order to change the signatories or letterhead (including your office address or other details), please send a new, original copy of the letterhead with the new signatories to the U.S. Embassy, Attn: "Consular Section, BFP Resource Officer".
- All companies can submit up to four signatories. Two to four signatories are requested in order to account for any possible holiday leave or travel of company officers
- Companies must comply with BFP visa-related audits. We request that you track and keep on file detailed information for all your employees applying for visas.
- Companies discovered to have misused the program will be disqualified from BFP. Misuse includes, but is not limited to:
- Misrepresentation of facts in documentation provided by the member company.
- Submission of applications for persons not actually employed by the member company.
- Submission of applications for persons not traveling on official company business.
- Suspected misuse of any visa by an employee should be reported to the U.S. Embassy immediately.
- Companies are requested not to ask for reconsideration of applications or details of an applicant’s case. All applicants are interviewed by a Consular Officer and cases are adjudicated individually. Applicants who are refused a visa may reapply and a different Consular Officer will adjudicate the case according to U.S. immigration law.