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Re:I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for... by planck1 on Friday August 25, 2017 @12:40PM (#15099872)
Piggybacking on this, if they are employed as an engineer and not explicitly as a founder, can they still be issued a significant (>30%, <50%) nonmajority equity share in a company?
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Re:I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for... by proberts on Friday August 25, 2017 @03:22PM (#15101421)
USCIS and CBP will deny TN applications based on significant ownership alone even if the employee is truly working as an engineer and owns less than 50%.
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