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fakedangtoday at 5:38 PM2 repliesview on HN

Who said anything about getting a visa? The entire point of my idea was about skipping German bureaucracy. The only US bureaucracy is the IRS, and 2 forms for offshore LLCs at that. Getting a visa actually defeats the purpose of the Wyoming LLC, since you'd have to pay federal taxes as a US resident. But with the Wyoming LLC being pass-through with the added benefit of zero liability (same arrangement as OP), you'd only have to pay corporate taxes and then German personal income taxes as a German resident. You don't need to step foot in the US at all.

You can't get a visa to run your own company under normal circumstances anyways, the only routes being O1, EB5 or EB1.


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quentindanjoutoday at 6:58 PM

O1, EB5 or EB1 are visas, sure EBs are also referred to as "green cards" but they are visas. And you are also missing the E-2 category.

The US has dedicated visas for running your own company in normal circumstances. I am not sure what you mean.

markvdbtoday at 6:20 PM

You mean German CIT and German PIT I assume. How happy would the US IRS be with that?