You need to find a lawyer who is entreprenurial and is willing to work
the system for you. 10 years ago I used a guy in SF called Matt
Schulz, but he now works for Baker and Mackenzie - a check of his old
domain yields this:
SchulzLaw: Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.
With sincere
That's an awesome deck - can I get it in .ppt format?
On Mar 9, 7:09 pm, David Jones wrote:
> nice one Niki/Phil!
>
> The last few slides on my #growthtown ("Going Global") talk discuss plumbing
> issues/cost related to "flipping-up" to the US. It is posted
> at:http://www.slideshare.net/djinoz
great presentation. thanks for making that available.
Alan.
On Mar 10, 1:09 pm, David Jones wrote:
> nice one Niki/Phil!
>
> The last few slides on my #growthtown ("Going Global") talk discuss plumbing
> issues/cost related to "flipping-up" to the US. It is posted
> at:http://www.slideshare.n
we setup in Oz in 2002. Have several years of profit on books, but
the last 1 has been less - working solely on product dev. I would
like to keep both running. I agree with immigration lawyers often not
being equal (I have done a few H1B's years ago...).
The L1 is a nice option (it allows for
nice one Niki/Phil!
The last few slides on my #growthtown ("Going Global") talk discuss plumbing
issues/cost related to "flipping-up" to the US. It is posted at:
http://www.slideshare.net/djinoz/dj-growthtown-feb09
cheers
d.
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 6:00 AM, phil.montgom...@majura.com <
phil.mon
Sorry, hit send too soon on the previous message.
The way we moved our company was:
1. Get a good immigration attorney to plan everything
2. Setup a US subsidiary that was 100% owned by the Australian
company, and keep all US sales in that new company (i.e. show revenue)
3. Keep the Australi
I didn't migrate my Australian startup to a US one, but I did start a
fresh US one and had, up until recently, an E-3 visa.
Basically you can get an E-2 founder visa that lasts 7 years but you
need to show an investment of more than US$100k (preferably from
yourself) and a business plan to show m
As an aside - There are a few other options:
UK - Easy if you have a parent or grandparent who was born there. A parent
gets you citizenship/passport outright whereas a grandparent (both sides,
depending on the exact year) will get you "right of abode" - effectively a
repeatable 4 year visa. If yo
I'm over in SF now and I was chatting to a few aussies about this just last
night.
Apparently the E3 doesn't really work at all - Ironically it's fine to bring
employees over, but not the actual founders. I was told a story of a startup
where they employ a Canadian in the US, but they can't actual
