Can I Get an H-1B Visa Working for My Own Company?
May 6th, 2011
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I have written about opportunities for foreign entrepreneurs who wish to obtain U.S. work visas (Visa Basics for Foreign Entrepreneurs Coming to the U.S., Visa Basics for Foreign Entrepreneurs, Part 2: What Constitutes Work?). This post focuses on a particularly interesting aspect of this issue: Whether and how a foreign entrepreneur can form a corporation in the U.S. and, then, obtain an H1-B visa to work for that corporation.
Categories: Business Entities, Immigration, Startup
Dana Shultz is a business-savvy lawyer located in Northern California's San Francisco Bay Area (in the East Bay, near Oakland) who has in-depth knowledge of law, business, technology, and the needs of startup and early-stage companies.