My company is instituting a policy for SDE on B1/ B2. Would like to know a baseline from Amazon or MS. Like is there a concept of per diem and what is the cap for reimbursements a like car rentals, etc. Travel ranging for 2-3 weeks
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SDE on B1/B2? Time for ICE to raid your company. This is serious violation of US laws.
For 2 weeks trips they travel for meeting people here.
Then just say visitors. Why did you say SDE?
Curious, Can B1/B2 visit for long weekend trips ?
Let’s hope those SDE’s are actually not “employed” paid or unpaid, the B1/B2 doesn’t give you work authorization in the US. B-visas are suggested for people that travel to the US too frequently under the ESTA visa waiver program, even for recreational and non-business purposes. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_visa
B2 is for business purposes, for example meetings, conferences... everything that would qualify as business trip, for a short time.
In general B1 travelers visit for 2-3 weeks by Max. Mostly companies allows food bill reimbursement on actuals with a cap of around $55-65 per day, exact amount depending on the city. Small amounts like $10-20 per day without bill is also acceptable.
Amazon reimburses every meal including alcohol. There’s a cap, but it’s not in the policy and is quite hard to hit. There is a set of pre-approved hotels or a cap to stay anywhere else.
B1 B2 should be used for short business trips and knowledge exchange and not actual work. Usually Ms pays actual with cap on single meal bill and don't reimburse for alcohol.
MS totally reimburses alcohol (In moderation)
This is dependent on subsidiary location. I am assuming person traveling on b1 would file expense in home country. For example MS India has specific clause of not reimbursing alcohal.