To remove your borders, you have to know where they are.
Laws decide how you build, how you scale, how you protect your ideas, and whether you can cross a border to do any of it. Most people trying to move their work to the U.S. spend weeks decoding government forms and outdated blog posts, and still end up picking the visa they heard about rather than the one their record supports.
This guide puts it in the order it actually happens. How to be here, how to build here, how to protect what you build, and how to plan for the parts founders put off until they get expensive.
For founders, executives, investors and professionals moving their work here.
How to be here. How to build here. How to keep it.




A LITTLE BIT
ABOUT THE
AUTHOR
I'm Bahar Ansari, a transactional attorney in California specializing in business law and business immigration, and the founder of Second.Law. For nearly fourteen years I've helped founders, executives and extraordinary talent move their work to the U.S., from incorporation and IP through visas, hiring and compliance.
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