Non-US Visa Applicants to the US - Don't You Think It's Time We Compared Notes?
OK, I'll kick things off. In our case, we have a US founder and two UK founders, a further two US employees, and a UK employee.. We started life as a UK limited company, and then incorporated a US Delaware parent co. So now the UK company is wholly owned by the Delaware corporation, and all the shareholders hold stock only in the US co. Sound complicated? It is, but entirely doable and we negotiated fixed fees and payment deferral with our US lawyers (UK lawyers are twice the price by the way..). This was not the most efficient way of getting from zero to functioning company, but it has presented us with some interesting options for visas. Firstly, the UK guys (founders and employee) can be employees of the UK company and get B1 visas for the US for the first twelve months . Physically, we can be in US, but be paid by the UK entity. We can do this for 12 months than get E2 (Treaty Invest
Why it failed
OK, I'll kick things off. In our case, we have a US founder and two UK founders, a further two US employees, and a UK employee.. We started life as a UK limited company, and then incorporated a US Delaware parent co. So now the UK company is wholly owned by the Delaware corporati
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- petesmithy
- Ended
- 2007
- Source
- hackernews