Investor Profiles

Individual investors and companies in various situations and circumstances decide to pursue E-2/E-1 visas or status, but from the following types of investors are most common:

Individual investors

• Business persons who are confident that they can start either a branch, subsidiary or affiliate office in the United States, and wish to come over to the United States to expand their business in home country and lay the necessary foundation and network.
• Business persons who wish to go international and establish a U.S. market for their products.
• F-1 students who are unable to obtain H-1B visas and wish to try their hands in owning and operating their own business.
• Investors who wish to find the right business partner to manage and operate suitable E-2 businesses in the area of their interest.
• People who wish to enter the United States as quickly as possible to establish their lives for various reasons.
• People who wish to start a second phase in their lives but who wish to make regular incomes to support themselves.

Companies

• Companies who wish to send their executives, managers or essential skilled employees to head the U.S. branch, affiliate or subsidiary to break into the U.S. market.
• Companies who wish to establish their presence in the U.S. to better handle their growing business and customers in the U.S.
• Supplier or sub-contractor companies which have to establish U.S. companies in order to serve their main buyer company which has opened a U.S. factory.
• Companies who want to avoid stricter adjudications of L-1 petitions and which also qualify for E-2 or E-1 visas for their employees.