The E-2 Investor Visa: It Is Not Only What You Invested, but What You Built
A concise overview of treaty nationality, committed capital, a real operating enterprise, and the evidence that connects them.
READ →Questions worth
thinking through.
An editorial series on law, mobility, history, business, identity, culture, and technology. The English edition begins with selected publications from the firm’s digital library.
The first English collection.
L-1A New Office: Transferring a Manager Is Easy to Describe. Building the System Is Harder.
What is examined when a foreign company opens a U.S. operation and transfers an executive or manager.
READ →The Smart Look at O-1: What Extraordinary Really Requires
Media, career context, influence, portfolios, expert letters, and the evidentiary framework of O-1.
READ →Beyond Immigration: Migration as a Psychology of Change
An editorial essay on identity, language, memory, politics, art, and the search for home while moving.
READ →The F-1 Student Visa: Admission Is Only the Beginning
I-20, SEVIS, funding, study purpose, and plans after the program.
READ →K-1: A Relationship Process and an Evidence File
From Form I-129F to marriage within 90 days: the framework couples should understand before they begin.
READ →Waivers: First Identify What Must Be Waived
The ground of inadmissibility, visa category, and legal provision determine whether relief may exist and what must be established.
READ →The Consular Business Plan: When Numbers Must Speak the Language of Law
Why a plan written for an investor or bank is not necessarily the right plan for a business immigration case.
READ →Accuracy before effect.
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