You came here to own something. Your visa doesn’t have to be the reason you don’t.
Since January 2025, there is a real, legal path for people on H-1B to own and run a business — by starting one, by buying one, or, like some of us, both. This is the plain-English briefing, and the cohort that walks it with you.
Start or buy. Either way, own yourself.
Pick your path ↓Most people think there’s one way onto this path. There are two.
Pick the one you’re leaning toward. You’re not committing to anything — you’re telling us where to begin.
Start to Own
Build a company from the ground up and be sponsored through the business you own. This is the road the 2025 rule opened widest — the founder as their own sponsor.
Buy to Own
Acquire a business that already has revenue, customers, and a team — and own your seat at the table. Skip the climb from zero. Carries its own rules worth understanding first.
Three facts about the 2025 rule worth knowing before anyone sells you anything.
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 — the government wanted an outside boss who could fire you. That barrier is gone. A founder with a controlling interest can now be sponsored through their own company.
“Controlling interest” has a definition now: more than 50% ownership, or majority voting rights. Cross that line and a distinct, clearer set of rules applies to you.
It is not the standard three years. For founder-owners, the first approval and first extension are capped at 18 months each. Knowing that changes how you plan from day one.
I set out to buy — I wanted revenue that already existed, not the long climb from zero. So I started my own, as the bridge that made owning possible. And then I did what I came to do, and bought.
Two roads diverged. I walked both. That’s the only reason I can stand at the fork with you and point — whichever way you’re leaning, someone here has already been down it.
Four weeks. One 60-minute session each. You leave knowing what to do and who to hand it to.
The cohort teaches you to navigate build-or-buy on H-1B. It is not legal advice and it does not replace your lawyer — every sprint ends by handing you to the professional who does that part.
Foundation & entity
What makes a company a bona-fide U.S. employer that can sponsor — legal presence, EIN, ability to pay; the C-corp vs LLC decision.
Your entity direction and your capitalization and ability-to-pay story.
Formation attorney · CPA
The role & the gate
The specialty-occupation role, majority-duties rule, SOC code, prevailing wage — and why the LCA is certified before the petition.
Your role definition, wage picture, and ability-to-pay evidence.
Immigration attorney
The petition & the cap
What goes in the I-129 case; the cap/lottery vs. change-of-status vs. cap-exempt doors, and how timing changes everything.
Your document set, your timing strategy, which door likely applies.
Immigration attorney
Approval & the long game
The 18-month clock, site-visit readiness, maintaining status, the extension, the green-card horizon, clean money in and out.
Your operating cadence, compliance calendar, and professional bench.
CPA · tax attorney · immigration attorney
You’ll also leave with a vetted bench of professionals who do this specific work — people in our referral network, disclosed as such. We connect you; you choose and hire your own.
The three questions everyone in your position asks first.
Is this legal advice?
No — it’s education, taught by a founder who has done it. It does not replace your lawyer. You’ll still hire your own: a formation attorney, an immigration attorney, a tax attorney, a CPA. We teach you to navigate; they make it official.
Could this put my status at risk?
Nothing here asks you to do anything to your status. Understanding the rule before you act is the opposite of risky. Any actual move is yours to make with your own attorney.
Is this a scam?
No visa is sold here. No outcome is promised. We can’t get you anything — only help you understand what became possible in 2025, so you decide from facts, not fear.
Stand at the fork with us.
Pick where you’re starting and get on the list. It’s free and commits you to nothing — you’ll get the newsletter now, and when a cohort opens we’ll send you a link to sign up.