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You might have multiple options such as an E-2 and an O-1 or even EB1A green card. Regarding your job flexibility, this will depend on the facts, how your job duties are defined, because you are broadly limited to doing what is represented in the O-1 petition.

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Hi Peter and thank you very much! How strictly is the job duty limitation enforced and does it allow occasional exceptions that would be outside the job duty definition? Is having a wide job duty definition a hindrance for getting a visa?

Again, this is hard to answer in the abstract but for example, I see no issue with someone, who is an artist, getting an O-1 as an entrepreneur but as part of his or her job duties, doing artwork - but the artwork needs to be for the US company in your capacity as an employee of that company.

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