The Immigrant Entrepreneur Library

Written for owners and for the people about to become one.

Every piece names the gap between what you were told and what the published rule says, separates the two, and ends with the questions worth taking to your own attorney and CPA. Nothing here is gated.

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Own Yourself Now provides educational content only — not legal, tax, immigration, or financial advice, and not brokerage. Reading these pieces creates no attorney–client or accountant–client relationship. We are not a law firm and we do not represent anyone. Every case turns on its own facts; your own attorney, CPA, and licensed advisors make every real decision. Where a piece states our reading of a rule rather than quoting it, it says so.

Every piece names its rule; a checked date, where a piece has one, is in its byline · this index updated 3 October 2026 · nothing gated

The thirty-six pieces

All 36 pieces

1Owning versus workingFoundations 2The entrepreneur rule, and what replaced the independent-board pathStatus · H-1B 3The single point of failure in an H-4 EAD businessStatus · H-4 4Self-employment on STEM OPT, read line by lineStatus · F-1: OPT 5The student head-start nobody usesStatus · F-1 6TN: the named prohibition, and its edgesStatus · TN 7When the business is the visaRoute · E-2 8The route with no lottery in itRoute · O-1 9Moving your own company, honestlyRoute · L-1 10Section 245: the adjustment bars, and what changed in 2026Money 11The $100,000 fee panic, and what it applied toMoney 12Vacated figures, and the numbers that survivedMoney · EB-5 13B-1/B-2 visitor boundaries: scouting vs. operatingStatus · B-1 / B-2 / ESTA 14E-3 Australian specialty professionals & ownershipStatus · E-3 15J-1 exchange visitors & the 212(e) home residence barStatus · J-1 16EB-2 NIW & EB-1A: self-petitioning green cards for entrepreneursRoute · EB-2 NIW / EB-1A 17International Entrepreneur Parole (IER): venture-backed pathwaysRoute · IER Parole 18Foreign-owned LLCs & the $25,000 IRS Form 5472 trapEntity & Tax 19100% remote overseas entrepreneurs: owning a U.S. business from abroadRemote Setup 20Acquiring an existing U.S. business on a nonimmigrant visaAcquisitions 21Green card holders (LPRs): unrestricted ownership & tax compliancePermanent Status 22Naturalized U.S. citizens: global expansion, export controls & CFIUSCitizenship 23Qualified Small Business Stock, and the compliance that has to start on day oneMoney · QSBS 24Early-stage capital, R&D credits, and the tax that leaks on the way inMoney · Capital 25The Second DoorFoundations 26The seven questions that decide itFoundations 27The concurrent H-1B, read as a mechanismStatus · H-1B 28The control question, and how it changed for H-1B owner petitionsStatus · H-1B 29Which entities can you actually own? The S corporation trap, preciselyEntity & Tax 30The five forms, compared for the non-citizen ownerEntity & Tax 31One dollar, two doors: double tax and pass-through, worked honestlyEntity & Tax 32Should you incorporate at all?Entity & Tax 33Where to form, and why the internet's Delaware advice may not be yoursEntity & Tax 34The decision path, in the order a non-citizen must walk itEntity & Tax 35B corporations and co-ops: the forms nobody mentions to immigrantsEntity & Tax 36What the Listing Is Really SayingAcquisitions