Visas E-1
Visas E-2
Visas para inversionistas, Visas E-2
Si usted es ciudadano de Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras, México, o España, y quiere invertir en una empresa en los Estados Unidos, o comenzar una empresa en los Estados Unidos, quizás sea elegible para una visa E-2. Usted puede obtener una visa E-2 si está en estatus migratorio legal en los EEUU, o si está afuera de los EEUU.
Usted es elegible para una visa E-2 en caso de hacer una inversión sustancial en una empresa en los EEUU. Puede empezar una empresa nueva o comprar una empresa existente. Usted tiene que demostrar de donde ha obtenido el dinero para invertir. Tiene que contratar al menos un ciudadano americano o una residente permanente en su empresa. Puede ser una empresa pequeña como una gasolinera o una tienda.
La visa E-2 es una visa temporal que dura dos años. Usted puede seguir prorrogando su visa E-2 mientras que su empresa tenga éxito. La empresa debe ser rentable y debe obtener ganancias.
Si la empresa es la propiedad de otras personas, hay que demostrar que la empresa tiene la misma ciudadanía que el del solicitante de visa, que quisiera hacerse empleado de la empresa. La ciudadanía de una empresa está determinada por la ciudadanía de las personas que son los dueños de la empresa. La empresa debe ser al menos 50% la propiedad de personas que son ciudadanos del mismo país. Si un dueño de la empresa es un residente permanente o ciudadano de los EEUU, no está incluido como ciudadano del país tratado. El país en donde la empresa estaba fundada no importa en la determinación de su nacionalidad.
Visas
You can read the full page for these different types of visas by click on one of the items on the right.
Major areas of concentration are the following:
- H-1B (Professionals);
- H-1B1 (Professionals from Chile and Singapore);
- L-1 (Managers, Executives and Specialized Knowledge Workers) ;
- E (Investors and Traders) ;
- R (Religious Workers) ;
- P (Artists and Entertainers) ;
- Labor Certifications;
- National Interest Waivers;
- Aliens of Extraordinary Ability;
- Health Care Workers;
- Student Visas;
- TN Visas; Business; Federal Court;
- Greencards and citizenship;
- Professors and Researchers;
- Adoptions;
- Family and Marriage Petitions ;
- Asylum, Deportation and Cancellation of Removal.
Welcome
The Law Office of Heidi J Meyers is a full-service immigration law firm, established in 1997. In addition to H-1B petitions and employment-based immigration, our office offers a wide array of immigration services, including: E-1 (treaty traders), E-2 (treaty investors), L-1A (managerial and executive transferees) and L-1B (specialized knowledge workers), cap-exempt H-1Bs to work at non-profit universities or their affiliates, R visas (religious workers), family petitions, marriage petitions, F-1 (student visas), naturalization, asylum, deportation and removal proceedings, waivers of deportability, waivers of unlawful presence, and DACA (Deferred Action of Childhood Arrivals).
Ms. Meyers has been practicing U.S. immigration law since 1995, and has had her own firm since 1997. We speak Cantonese, French, Fulani, Mandarin, Punjabi and Spanish and represent people of all religions and nationalities, and from all walks of life.
Our office is located at:
The Woolworth Building
233 Broadway, Suite 801
New York, NY 10279
Our phone number is (212) 791-4007. We are conveniently located near the World Trade Center PATH station, the A, C, E trains at Chamber Street/WTC, the 2 and 3 trains at Park Place, the R and W at City Hall, and the 4, 5, 6, J and Z trains at Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall.
USCIS has recently come out with the final rule on F-1 students with STEM degrees. STEM students will now be eligible for a 24-month extension of their OPT, provided that their employer participates in the E-Verify program. The rule requires employers to implement formal training programs, and adds wage and other protections for STEM students and U.S. workers. DHS will now conduct site visits of the employers of F-1 students on OPT. The final rule also codifies cap-gap relief for F-1 students with a timely-filed H-1B petition and request for change of status.
The U.S. Supreme Court may make a decision as early as this June 2016 on the Texas v. United States lawsuit regarding the president’s executive action and power to create the expanded DACA and DAPA programs. Should the U.S. Supreme Court rule in favor of the Obama administration and immigrants, more people will be eligible for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). Currently undocumented people who arrived in the US before turning 16 years old and have been present since January 1, 2010 (rather than since June 15, 2007), are now eligible for DACA. There also will be no upper age limit on who can apply for DACA. Additionally, parents of U.S. citizens and permanent residents who have been present in the US since January 1, 2010, will be eligible to request deferred action and work authorization, provided they pass background checks;