One Year Business Rule
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. [...]
Visa Process
Overseas, foreign service officers and US consular posts issue all visas; you must obtain your first visa from a consular officer outside the US. These consuls work for the Department of State, an agency of the federal government that controls foreign affairs. Each US consular post determines its own filing procedures, and not all consular [...]