Programs · for people who intend to own something
Your right to stay runs through someone else's company.
It could run through your own.
We teach professionals on a visa how to own a real U.S. business — started or bought — without quitting the job that holds their status today.
Every legal claim cited to primary law
Every price printed on the page
Nothing charged to read
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Two realities
Nothing on this site is worth your time unless the left column is you.
So read it first. If it is not you, we would rather you closed the tab than bought something out of curiosity.
Where you are today
- One reorg, one hard quarter, and the window to find another sponsor opens whether you are ready or not.
- You have read confident forum answers that were true three rule changes ago, with nothing marking them stale.
- Nobody has told you plainly what your status permits you to own — so the idea has stayed an idea for years.
Where you want to be
- A business in your own name — formed, banked and earning — built while you keep the job that holds your status.
- Answers you can check yourself, because every one is cited to the rule it came from and dated.
- Income and equity that do not renew in increments somebody else controls.
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Two roads
There are only two ways to own a business here. Both are open to you.
Start one from nothing, or buy one that already runs. Which is right for you falls out of your cash, your runway and your hours — not your temperament. We teach both, and we will tell you when the answer is neither, this year.
Road A · start
Build it yourself
Cheaper to begin and slower to pay you. You design the entity, so nothing is inherited — and nothing has a trading history yet either, which is what most evidence and most lenders want to see.
Suits you if time is what you have more of than money.
Road B · buy
Buy one that already works
Revenue, customers and staff from day one, at a price. Roughly a million owner-run businesses change hands by 2035 — and since March 2026 the SBA lane is closed to non-citizens, so the money has to be built another way.
Suits you if you need it to pay you sooner than a start will.
The Immigrant Entrepreneur Cohort settles which road is yours in week two, on your own numbers. Everything else on this site is downstream of that one decision.
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Your status
Something brought you here this week. Start there.
Pick the one that happened. We will tell you which room answers it, and when the answer is that none of them do, we will tell you that too.
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If none of these is you, the Library is free and ungated and it is where we would send you today.
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Why now
Three doors opened. One closed. None of them waited for you to feel ready.
This is the part a page like this owes you: not only what the rooms cost, but what another year of not deciding costs.
~1M
Owner-run businesses change hands by 2035
Their owners are retiring. Many are solid, profitable, and have no successor waiting. Someone buys each of them — and being ready is most of what decides who.
2025
The company you own can sponsor you
Federal rules now say so explicitly, when the conditions are met. Ownership can mean owning your immigration — and the conditions are structural, so they are built early or not at all.
2026
The bank lane closed in March
SBA lending is restricted to citizens and nationals. Seller financing and earn-outs are the path we teach instead — and doors that shut once can shut again.
Every figure here is cited and dated in the Library, free and ungated. Education, not financial or legal advice — and we would rather you verified than believed us.
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Alternatives
You already have three alternatives. Here they are, honestly.
Each is genuinely right for something. Read the first three before the fourth.
Forums at 1 a.m.
Free, and endless.
Confident answers from people whose facts are not your facts, true three rule changes ago, with nothing marking them stale.
A one-off consult
$400–$600 an hour.
Right for the question you already know how to ask. It will not teach you the shape of the decision, and the clock runs while you learn.
A business broker
Free to you. Paid on the close.
Useful, and not neutral: their fee depends on you signing something. Nobody in that room is paid to tell you to walk away.
Own Yourself Now
Taught live, for your status.
Rules read from the source and worked against your numbers — and nobody in a deal pays us, so “walk away” is a sentence we can say.
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Who teaches
“For twenty years we built brands and products inside other people's companies, while our family's right to stay rode on decisions made in rooms we weren't in. We built this house so the next family holds their own key.”
They have walked every road they teach — F-1, CPT and OPT, H-1B, L-1, O-1, H-4, the green-card queue and citizenship — plus starting, buying and selling businesses on each side of that line.
Read the whole story →Where the line is
We won't write your verdict.
The tools decide from your numbers; nothing here scores you.
We won't promise an outcome.
No income claims, no success rates, no guaranteed cases. Anywhere.
We won't give you advice.
Legal, tax and immigration route to licensed humans; we teach the pattern.
We show our sources.
Every number is cited, or labelled as our own reading.
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From here
Three ways in. Only two of them cost anything.
Start with the free one if you are not sure. It is the whole library, ungated, and it will tell you more about how we think than any sales page.
Boundaries
Said plainly
What we are, and what we are not.
Education and preparation
We teach published rules as written, on worked examples, and get you ready for the rooms where decisions are made. Where we are reading a rule rather than quoting it, we say so.
Not advice, not representation
We are not a law firm, not your attorney, not your CPA and not a brokerage. No legal, tax, immigration or financial advice, no position taken on your case, and nothing filed or signed for you.
No relationship created
Reading this site or attending a room creates no attorney–client or accountant–client relationship, and no sponsorship of any kind. Every real decision stays with your own licensed advisors.
Rules move, and dates matter. Anything we teach is accurate to the date we state and no further — check the date, then take your own facts to your own attorney and CPA. Every case turns on its own facts.