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To setup the company, you don't need to live in the US. Today IMO your best solution is to register a Delaware corp via Stripe Atlas. It's relatively cheap, but
by ecesena 8y ago
To setup the company, you don't need to live in the US. Today IMO your best solution is to register a Delaware corp via Stripe Atlas. It's relatively cheap, but keep in mind you'll have to pay taxes and an accountant, so plan for a few thousand USD.
In terms of visa/moving to the US to work on your startup, certainly you should ask a lawyer. I think you can come at least once on ESTA and/or OPT. Your best long term solution is an E2 visa, which typically cost in the order of the $10k, and it's issued after you have spent a certain amount of money through your startup, say $50k-100k. The nice thing about the E2 is that your company becomes eligible for E2, and after that you can issue multiple visas to multiple people, say 3-5.
Please note that these are all ballpark numbers to give you a sense. It worked for us, it may not work for you. You definitely need a lawyer to assist you in all these steps.