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- ↑ "Netherlands Friendship, Commerce, and Navigation Treaty" . Retrieved 13 July 2016.
- ↑ "E-1 Treaty Traders" . Retrieved 13 July 2016.
The E-1 nonimmigrant classification allows a national of a treaty country (a country with which the United States maintains a treaty of commerce and navigation) to be admitted to the United States solely to engage in international trade on his or her own behalf.
- ↑ "Treaty Countries" . Retrieved 13 July 2016.
- ↑ "Treaty Traders and Treaty Investors-E VISAS". Archived from the original on 15 August 2016. Retrieved 13 July 2016.
- ↑ "Investor Visas: Netherlands". Library of Congress. Retrieved 13 July 2016.
- ↑ "Dutch-American Friendship Treaty (DAFT)" . Retrieved 16 December 2023.
- ↑ "Treaty Traders and Treaty Investors-E VISAS". US Embassy in Amsterdam. Archived from the original on 15 August 2016. Retrieved 13 July 2016.