Wednesday 1 February 2012 - Cajon Rail LLC registered!
Cajon Pass is a mecca for railfans and we'll either be living near the top of it or the bottom of it. As my company is a railway company, using that pass as a business names makes sense! Add to that, anybody searching for Cajon Pass might well come across my website which is no bad thing at all. Cajon is Spanish for box or drum; in this case a "box-like canyon". It can even mean coffin which is not really a good thing. Let's put emphasis on the box thing as in "thinking outside the box"! Anyway, company legally formed in just 22 days from filing which is quicker than expected. Internet domains registered now as well.
Not only that but I also have a US business address, phone, and fax number! These go to an agent (the ones who set up my company) and they basically hold your mail, scan it for you if you want, forward it to you, or shred it. With the phone calls it records them and emails the recording somehow. And the faxes are just scanned and emailed. But at least I have a US address I can start to use!
Part of the incorporation package was the ability to obtain a Federal Employer Identification Number. I need this to open a bank account. The instructions say to just phone this number with this form we've filled in for you. Forty five minutes of waiting later and finally someone answers! It's the IRS and my first interaction with them - and not that great! I'm not sure I could have found a more disinterested person! Anyway, he took my details (repeating stuff every now and again due to static on the line) but he seemed to repeat back okay. And I got an EIN so that's another job done.
Had Blue Shield email me again yesterday (health insurance). They wanted more information. So we phoned them and had a lovely lady answer the phone. She wanted to know about our heights, weights, and whether anything had changed since we submitted our applications a week or two ago. That took a little while to go through the four of us. To be honest, I think they'll either reject us or they'll quote an astronomical price. But we have to go through the motions - and who knows, maybe it'll be ok.
But as I now have a company, I can apply to the IGDA (International Game Developers Association) which means I should be able to use their health plan offerings. I've no idea whether it's any good but it's worth a try!
I need a logo for my new company and the shout has gone out to freelancer.com. This is a website that brings together people who need small jobs doing and people who want to do small jobs. Put very bluntly, western companies want people to do things for them cheaply, and eastern (often Indian) people will do them for prices that are cheap by western standards but generous by eastern standards. The problem is trying to sort the wheat from the chaff. I've had over a dozen bids for my work in just over an hour, and the bidding is open for another 5 days! Some nice portfolios in there though.
With this new company comes a load more paperwork so I'd better get on to it!
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My attempt to get an EB1a visa for the US, a person of extraordinary ability, which gives a green card pretty much immediately, and there is no waiting period unlike most other visas.
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