The O1 Visa is a kind of art visa that is given out in the USA to persons with some outstanding abilities and achievements. This kind of immigrant visa is given to individuals who have achieved great success in science, art, education, business, and sport. And to those who have had great proficiency in the fields of the film and television industry, and are known at national and international levels for such high attainments.

After leaving for New York in 2012, Marko Marković in 2013 applied for and received an O1 Visa as a person who in the process of the application had shown extraordinary capacity and achievements in the fields of art and education.

While the visa was being made out, as part of the required documentation, Marković drew up and entered into contracts with contractual parties, museums, and galleries in which he shows a three-year plan of activities in the domain of culture and art. Among the contracting parties, he presented contracts with the following institutions: MoMA, ISCP, Residency Unlimited, CEC Arts Link, NURTUREart, Kentler International Drawing Space and so on.