Tips for a Smoother Investor Immigration Experience
You are about to make a huge life-changing decision. You intend to move to another country and see how your business skills compare to local investors and business owners. You…
International Posts
Documentation Requirements for Your L-1 Visa
If you are contemplating coming to the United States to establish or expand a U.S. office of a foreign company, you will likely require an L-1 visa, and you will…
How an Immigrant Entrepreneur Can Live in the United States
If you are not a U.S. citizen, you can legally live and work in the United States as long as you obtain one of the immigrant visas that are available…
How to Start an International Trading Business
International trade is the import and/or export of products, services, or commodities between companies or individuals in different countries. Trade exists because a buyer wants to import something that a…
USA Treaty Countries for Investors and Traders
The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) agency of the U.S. Department of State allows investors and traders from “Treaty Countries” the opportunity to apply for a nonimmigrant visa…
Social Factors in your PESTEL Analysis
Part 4 of 7 Introduction You will recall from the earlier posts in this series that a PESTEL analysis highlights the external macro-economic factors that can affect a business’s growth…
Economic Factors in your PESTEL Analysis
Part 3 of 7 Introduction PESTEL has two “E’s” in it. The first one stands for Economic factors: those external economic factors that might have a direct or indirect long-term…
Political Factors in your PESTEL Analysis
Part 2 of 7 Introduction This blog post is being updated in the fourth quarter of 2023. Over the past year and more, a great deal has been written about…
Your PESTEL Will Expose the Good & Bad of Your Next Big Opportunity
Part 1 of 7 Going International? Do Your PESTEL Analysis First PESTEL is an acronym for an often utilized analysis that considers the external macroeconomic influences on a business and…
Lessons from Foreign Entrepreneurs
We thought it would be interesting to check in with some former E-2 Treaty Investor visa and L-1 visa clients to see how they are doing now that they have…