precision34 Posted January 26, 2015 Report Share Posted January 26, 2015 Hi All, I have a question. I am on my 9th year of H1 with non current priority date and no EAD. My company ( say, A) is holding my H1 for past 6 years. My company is a small consulting company in .NET and JAVA tecnologies mostly and is a direct vendor to few clients. Now, me and my friend ( who is also on H1B) have been part of core development of mobile apps related to gaming and utilities as part of our passion/weekend work. Now we are thinking to form a company ( B LLC) and trying to create a big social gaming platform ( android and ios). We might need 4 to 5 resources working full time for 6-9 months on this. We are thinking we ( B LLC) will work corp to corp with company A ( holding our h1s) to get the resources needed to complete this commercial mobile app. We will not be working in this company and we will continue work full time ( 40 hours a week) with company A which is holding our h1b. But do you see any issues if our newly formed LLC contracting with company A and paying them for resources for 6-9 months. This is totally different technology/platform that what company A does business ( there is no issue of conflict of interest or anything). Let us know Link to comment
JoeF Posted January 26, 2015 Report Share Posted January 26, 2015 You can form a company, but you can NOT work for it without the appropriate work authorization. Your H1 allows you to work for your employer ONLY. Somebody with work authorization would have to run the company, to sign contracts, sign checks, deposit checks, pay taxes, etc. And you can also not instruct that person to contract with any other company. The act of telling the company CEO what to do would be work as well. On H1, you can only be a passive investor, i.e./, putting money into a business and otherwise staying out of it. Link to comment
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