Selling an app on an L1 visa
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Selling an app on an L1 visa
So we all know the L1 visa is tied to your job and you can't change "employment". No issue with that.
In my spare time I have been working on a phone app. Say for example I sold it on the app store and it made any kind of money. I would file the extra income in my tax return of course.
My question is, would this 2nd income count as another "job", and would it cause me to get in trouble with (or invalidate) my visa?
Many thanks for any advice!
Rich
In my spare time I have been working on a phone app. Say for example I sold it on the app store and it made any kind of money. I would file the extra income in my tax return of course.
My question is, would this 2nd income count as another "job", and would it cause me to get in trouble with (or invalidate) my visa?
Many thanks for any advice!
Rich
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Re: Selling an app on an L1 visa
Yeah maybe, I was going off the fact that the US would tax world wide income and may class the other income stream as a job. Maybe I should just roll the dice.
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Re: Selling an app on an L1 visa
Ian
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Re: Selling an app on an L1 visa
I guess I just find it hard to make the distinction as I make an app as a hobby, if it happened to make any money that would count as passive income in my mind. Just like if I rent a house in the UK and take income from that. The US taxes it but it doesn't count as me having a second job being a professional landlord ;-)
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Re: Selling an app on an L1 visa
I guess I just find it hard to make the distinction as I make an app as a hobby, if it happened to make any money that would count as passive income in my mind. Just like if I rent a house in the UK and take income from that. The US taxes it but it doesn't count as me having a second job being a professional landlord ;-)