Four weeks, real gates, your fork. Step off with a company formed right and your next ninety days mapped. This page holds the whole story: where you stand, the door the 2025 rule opened, the four weeks, and the honest parts.
Every platform opens somewhere. Ours opens with the immigrant entrepreneur; operator, professional, searcher, your doors are open now and your cohorts follow.
Your right to stay runs through someone else’s company. One reorg or one hard quarter, and the clock starts.
Lose the job and you have weeks to find another sponsor, or leave.
The mortgage you keep not signing. The plans you keep postponing.
Even the desk job it rests on is a market AI is quietly reshaping.
This is the DHS H-1B Modernization Final Rule, effective January 17, 2025. Read the official summary at USCIS, or the full rule on the Federal Register.
Before 2025, owning your company worked against you. Now it doesn’t. An entrepreneur with controlling interest can be sponsored through the company they own. And if you already hold an H-1B, there is no new lottery to win.
More than half the ownership, or majority voting rights. Cross that line and a clearer, separate set of rules applies to you.
Not the usual three years. For entrepreneur-owners, the first approval and first extension are capped at 18 months each. Plan around it from day one.
A company is its own legal person. Pull the picture apart and there are four roles. You hold two of them; the company holds the other two.
The company itself. In law, its own person, separate from you.
You, holding a controlling interest in that company. Before 2025 this counted against you; now the rule allows it.
The same company, now hiring, paying, and petitioning. This is the sponsor.
Also you, doing the specialty-occupation work the company employs you to do.
One company, four roles. You are the owner and the employee. The company is the entity and the employer that sponsors you. That is the whole mechanism, and since 2025 it is legal.
A note on income: the salary you earn as the employee is the wage the H-1B requires the company to pay. As the owner, a business can pay you in other legitimate ways too. The full breakdown is part of the program.
Two tracks braid through these three weeks: building a real, running business, and meeting what the H-1B asks of it under the 2025 rule.
Each week ends on a gate, a real milestone. Both tracks converge on one act: your first payroll, at the prevailing wage.
Weeks 1 to 3 are the same whether you build or buy; week 4 forks. It’s education, not legal advice, and every week hands the legal part to the professional who does it.
Set up the company: entity (a C-corp or LLC, not a sole proprietorship), EIN, business bank account, clean books.
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Your role in the company, and how it earns. The wage comes from real revenue.
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Run it day to day: an operating rhythm, lean systems with AI, clean books, and your first real payroll.
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Growing a business you built: winning customers, making your first hires, improving margins, and building the systems to run without you. The community walks it with you, and the Corner is beside every step.
Keep judgment in your corner →Buying a business: searching, evaluating and valuing, structuring, negotiating, closing, and taking over. Week 4 is the trailer; the Buyer Programs are the film.
Go deeper in the Buyer Programs →You’ll also leave with a vetted bench of professionals who do this specific work. These are people in our referral network, disclosed as such. We connect you. You choose and hire your own.
For years, your right to stay has lived in someone else’s hands: an employer, a lottery, one manager’s decision. Own the business that sponsors you, and that flips.
Your status becomes yours to hold, not theirs to grant. And once you are no longer spending your life just trying to stay, you are free to build the one you actually came here for.
That is the oldest American story there is: immigrants who build.
A company that did not exist before is a payroll that did not exist before. Every hire you make is a job added to the economy, starting with your very first one.
A wave of solid businesses is run by owners near retirement with no one to take over.
Buy one and you keep the doors open, keep its people working, and grow it from there. You save what took decades to build, then build on top of it.
If that sounds like you, get on the list below.
The first cohort begins August 2. Seats are few by design.
Pick where you’re starting and hold your place. It takes a moment, and it commits you to nothing.
This is education, not legal advice. Own Yourself Now teaches you how this path works and how to prepare for it.
It does not file anything for you, and it does not replace a lawyer.
The real decisions and every filing are made with your own licensed immigration attorney, tax attorney, and CPA.
We are not a law firm, and we are not affiliated with USCIS or any government agency.
We are not a business broker; we do not represent buyers or sellers, arrange or negotiate transactions, or take commissions.
Where we refer you to professionals, they are an independent, curated network, disclosed as such. What you do, and whom you hire, is always your choice.
No. It’s education from an entrepreneur who has done it. It doesn’t replace your lawyer. You still hire your own, as needed:
Many entrepreneurs need just an immigration attorney and light help from a CPA.
No. Nothing here touches your status. Understanding the rule before you act is the opposite of risky. Any real move is yours to make with your attorney.
No. This is not:
No visa is sold here, and no outcome is promised. It is plain education about a real change in the 2025 rules, so you decide from facts, not fear.
Yes. You can keep your current job while you build. And since you already hold the visa, there is no new lottery to win. Starting does not mean quitting or taking a leap of faith. The cohort covers how that works.