casser

Lawyers! Easier to visit with one.

I guess it depends which preference of GC you are going with.

Pulaski

An E2 doesn't give you any preference. Whether you can have a face-to-face meeting with a lawyer is largely irrelevant in the 21st century. In some sense an E2 can be the worst thing: you're no longer outside the candy store looking in, you're allowed inside the store, but you can't touch the candy. ("Candy" = GC)

Noorah101

Lawyers are not miracle workers, and cannot materialize a green card out of an E-2 visa.

I think you are thinking of an H or L visa scenario. Very different from E-2.

Rene

Nutmegger

Yes, live their lives out working forever -- they can't retire from the business or the visa is gone and they have to leave the country.

casser

That's hardly a reason for not trying if you really want to live here.

Don't let the VISA expire and take a back seat and keep an interest in the business by employing a manager.

Nutmegger

The E-2 investment can't be passive -- someone was recently refused renewal in London because they were older and seen as not being sufficiently involved in the business.