Katrina W

If you wants to invest in the US, does you have to buy an existing business or can you start from scratch? Also, how much are you expected to invest?

Katrina W

Please excuse the grammar, I changed 'one' to 'you' without checking that it agreed with the rest of the sentence.

Stuart Brook

Katrina W wrote:
    > Originally posted by Katrina W:
    > > If you wants to invest in the US, does you have to buy an existing business or
    > > can you start from scratch? Also, how much are you expected to invest?
    > Please excuse the grammar, I changed 'one' to 'you' without checking that it agreed
    > with the rest of the sentence.
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You need to invest at least $100,000 ... what you are looking for is an E
class visa.

Katrina W

Thank you.

Ingo Pakleppa

On Sat, 07 Sep 2002 11:35:05 -0700, Katrina W wrote:


    > If you wants to invest in the US, does you have to buy an existing business or can
    > you start from scratch? Also, how much are you expected to invest?

Taking your question literally, the answer is: you can invest in whatever you want.
But since this is an immigration newsgroup, you are probably asking about which
investment would have immigration consequences.

This is a tricky field, and you should definitely hire a lawyer.

You can either get an E non-immigrant visa, or an investment-based Green Card. For
the latter, you will need an investment of one million $. This Green Card is intended
for newly formed businesses, although I have heard that there are ways you can also
get it through an existing company.

Again, hire a lawyer experienced with investment-based immigration.

trian

In most instances for the smaller investment amounts, the number of Americans you would hire is a crucial factor (as well as a viable business plan, startup money, experience, etc.).

That is, there are a lot more factors involved than just money (unless it is a lot of money).