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Applying for a US visa or green card through your zero-tax LLC

Will your zero-tax LLC get you a US visa or a green card? In short: no, but it can be part of the path. An honest assessment without the sales fairy tales.

Are you planning to live in the US one day? Then, as you know, you need a US visa or a green card. The question is whether it helps to use your zero-tax LLC as the sponsor, or whether you are better off forming a separate US company.

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Let us cut to the chase: the whole premise of a zero-tax LLC is that you avoid a US permanent establishment in every case. A US visa or green card, on the other hand, requires you to set up a permanent establishment in the US, create jobs there and become fully taxable there yourself.

So there is no point in applying for a US visa or green card through a zero-tax LLC, or in trying your luck with the green card lottery.

Our suggestion: form a zero-tax LLC first, and build your business and your wealth. Enjoy tax freedom.

As soon as you want to move to the US, form a C-Corporation. You can then, for example, transfer the LLC's customers to the C-Corporation. The corporation effectively takes over the LLC's business.

You then close the LLC and apply for a visa for permanent residence (the green card) through the C-Corporation. That way you get your green card at a time when it actually suits you.

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