As someone on a work visa, how did you quit your job exactly? What's the grace period before you need to find someone else to sponsor your visa? (I'm assuming your startup can't afford to do so, but I may be wrong)
Well, I thought about it for a while, and realized it wasn't worth it waiting N years to get a green card. I filed a petition to go from H1B status to B2 tourist and asked for 3 months to stay in the country to finish up my affairs. After that I left.
As a Canadian, I may enter the US for up to 6 months at a time without requiring a visa, but am I not allowed to work. So when I do visit, I make sure to only visit friends and I make sure not to do any work. I am currently in Toronto, but next month will be taking a vacation to the USA.
As a Canadian, I may enter the US for up to 6 months at a time without requiring a visa, but am I not allowed to work. So when I do visit, I make sure to only visit friends and I make sure not to do any work.
I wonder what is considered "work" and how could it be tracked. Whenever I travel abroad, I bring my laptop, and I always end up answering a few emails and writing code (which is what I do when I go to the office here in the US). If you have a company registered in Canada and you come to the US for 6 months, who is to stop you from sitting at a computer and typing away, as long as no money changes hands in the US?
Well, by the same token there isn't much stopping a Canadian from coming into the US and working as a fry chef. Laws are for honest people, and people who attract attention.
That's different, as the restaurant is a US business employing a foreign national without a visa. In my example, the business was outside the US, and no money changed hands here.
From what I remember reading a US embassy website: If you are telecommuting/teleworking for a foreign corporation not connected in the usa ('non us source income'), you can do that even if you don't have a US work authorization, as long as that corporation is not one you have a controlling interest in (not self-employed). So if you have a spouse who is under a non-work authorized visa, they can still telework for a polish corporation for example. Talk to lawyers and so on before you actually do something like this.
