Overview of the Eligibility criteria for the E-2 Visa

  1. You must be a citizen of a Treaty Country with the United States.
  2. You have invested, or you are actively in the process of investing and risk a substantial amount of capital
  3. You are an owner or manager with control over the enterprise and you will develop and direct the investment enterprise.
  4. You are applying from outside of the United States through the US embassy or from inside the United States to change your status to an E-2 classification.

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 This article was written by Dotan Cohen Law Offices, working in the field of immigration law in Israel, the United States and Canada.