Immigration
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The USCIS designed the one-year ‘doing business’ requirement to force the applicant company to show good faith in efforts to establish itself in the US. In the 1980s many Taiwanese companies established US subsidiary ‘shell’ companies as a vehicle to move children to the US to study and to later apply for a green card. [...]
Extending working stay
Start-up company L-1A visas have an initial validity period of one year, not three years as in other L-1A situations. The L-1A manager must conduct active business and hire employees within the one-year period. Remember, L-1A managers must oversee other managers, supervisors or professionals. At a minimum, the manager must make tangible progress towards establishing [...]
Corporation and Regulation
There are some question that used to be asked by people who owned some big corporation company and like to open some branch in other countries, mainly US as we discuss in here. They might found it bit tricky if didn’t know some qualification or regulation related onto it. So what are the regulation and [...]
L-Visas
The L visa category includes executive, manager or specialized knowledge applicants who transfer within an international organization. To qualify for any L category the visa applicant must transfer within the same international organization. The applicant must work in a qualifying capacity (as an executive, manager or specialized knowledge employee) for a foreign member of the [...]
Temporary Working Visas
International organizations and corporations use non-immigrant working visas to staff US operations. Investors use non-immigrant visas for themselves and employees sent to the US to monitor investments. US employers use non-immigrant visas to fill skill shortages in their companies. Many people use non-immigrant working visas as a stepping stone to permanent residence status and then [...]
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