USCIS Proposes Rule to Welcome International Entrepreneurs

Re:USCIS Proposes Rule to Welcome International Entrepreneurs by Animats on Friday August 26, 2016 @03:55PM (#12368877)

There's already a visa deal for foreign investors, the EB-5 visa. You have to invest at least $1M ($0.5M if you're willing to invest in a bad area of the US) and create 10 jobs.

That's why downtown Palo Alto has all those rug stores.

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Re:USCIS Proposes Rule to Welcome International Entrepreneurs by arcticbull on Friday August 26, 2016 @05:02PM (#12369276)

There's also E-2 visas you can get (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-2_visa) to run your own business with a much smaller investment (15-100K) assuming you're a citizen of a treaty country.

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Re:USCIS Proposes Rule to Welcome International Entrepreneurs by stringlytyped on Saturday August 27, 2016 @02:44AM (#12371307)

The problem with the E-2 visa is that you never become eligible to apply for a green card.

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Re:USCIS Proposes Rule to Welcome International Entrepreneurs by gorkemyurt on Friday August 26, 2016 @04:12PM (#12368981)

http://thesfshipyard.com and http://www.hudsonyardsnewyork.com are both eb-5 eligible projects, I wouldn't call them bad areas..

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Re:USCIS Proposes Rule to Welcome International Entrepreneurs by nojvek on Friday August 26, 2016 @04:05PM (#12368942)

Anyone here who came down the EB-5 visa that can tell us their experience?

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Re:USCIS Proposes Rule to Welcome International Entrepreneurs by chrisper on Friday August 26, 2016 @07:39PM (#12370072)

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/17/realestate/want-a-green-ca...

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