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INVESTORS VISA: E2

This type of visa allows you to establish and manage a business in the USA through a substantial amount of money or capital. Contact us and we will help you to achieve success.

Investors visa (E-2) allows foreign nationals to live in the United States in order to manage and develop a commercial enterprise or business in which they have invested a substantial amount of money or capital. This investment must be substantial and cannot be minimum.

The investors visa bears initial validity of two to five years and may be prolonged indefinitely while the business lasts. This visa is the best option for companies interested in investing or families that want to buy an existing business or creating a new one in the USA. existing business or creating a new one in the USA.

This investment must be a real operating enterprise in which the capital is at “risk” in a commercial sense. Speculative or idle investment (such as fixed-term deposits or real estate) does not qualify. That investment should be at “risk”.

 The investment and the business not only must generate significantly more income than needed to provide a living to the investor and family, but also it must have a significant economic impact in the United States.

It’s important to bear in mind that the trading company must exist and/or the investment has to be made before the visa can be issued. The capital should be at risk in a commercial sense before applying for the visa.

INVESTORS VISA: EB-5

 This visa provides a direct route to obtain the Green Card and, later on, to get permanent residency. 

The EB-5 visa is granted to foreign entrepreneurs and their dependents. They can live in the US in order to be able to manage large-scale investments. The minimum investment to qualify for an EB-5 visa is $900,000 for targeted employment areas o $1.8 millón en cualquier parte de los Estados Unidos.

In either case, it is expected to create at least ten full-time jobs for workers in the United States who qualify. To obtain an EB-5 Visa, you do not need a labor certification process in order to attempt to demonstrate a shortage of U.S. workers to carry out the potential job for the business you choose to establish. Also, the EB-5 Visa does not require the applicant to maintain an existing business in his or her home country or to have an extraordinary ability in business.

Once the initial EB-5 visa is granted on a two-year conditional basis, the investor must enter the US within 180 days and, then, he or she must prove to the U.S. federal government 

that is complying with the terms of the EB-5 visa; which are:

• the investor has established a new commercial enterprise

• the necessary amount of capital has been put at risk,

• the capital invested was from a lawful source,

• the investment is expected to create at least ten full-time jobs for US workers,

• the investor intends to stay in the United States,

• the investor will participate in the management of the company.

 VISA FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH EXTRAORDINARY ABILITY OR ACHIEVEMENT: O-1

 This type of visa is for individuals with extraordinary ability or achievements.

In order to apply for it, foreigners should present evidence that they possess extraordinary ability in sciences, arts, education, business, or athletics, and that the candidate has been recognized nationally or internationally for those achievements.

If you intend to carry out those special skills in the US for a while, you must be sponsored by an American company or agent.

An O-1 visa is initially granted for up to three years, but it can be extended for one year at a time. There is no limit to the number of annual extensions that may be granted until finishing the same event or activity for which the applicant was hired.

 Generally, the applicant must have received awards or sustained national or international recognition for achievements in the field of expertise and must meet a number of requirements, such as:

• having an outstanding performance that represents a relevant contribution related to sciences, academic fields, or business in which their unfolds;

• featuring academic articles or research work of their field in specialized or mass media;

• having proven high income and other benefits resulting from their activity in their home country or other countries;

• being a member of a highly professional association or institution that demands outstanding achievements of their members;

• receiving a reputable national or international award;

• also proving that you are the author of academic debates in top-tier media.

Our experts in this type of visa will aid you throughout the process of applying for it.

Religious worker (R-1) visa

R-1 visas are for persons who want to enter the United States to work temporarily in religious capacities for a certain period of time.

 The applicant should be hired or requested by a religious organization to carry out religious work and other activities usually performed by members or employees of said religious organizations.

In order to apply for this visa, the candidates must have been physically outside the United States for at least one year prior to their request and must have the intention to leave the country once their contract expired. 

This special type of visa should be taken into account by those whose religious vocation encourages them to work all around the world preaching the gospel and promoting spiritual initiatives considered beneficial for society.