Ask HN: Being part of a US based company as a foreigner
I started an US based company together with a former colleague. He is an US citizen while i'm an European citizen. We have several contracts, with our main focus on US government work. I lived in the US for about 5 years but moved back to Europe, with no plans on moving back to the US for now. We are struggling with a few questions/things that probably the people at HN experienced as well and resolved due to the link with the "start-up" world.
Currently the US based company is registered completely under the name of the other partner within the business. We are trying to figure out a good structure where the company will still be 50% US owned but were we both get an even "share". We need to keep the company 50% US owned to target certain US Government bids. Any ideas on possible solutions?
Certain bids also demand that persons working on the contract have a US VISA and/or US working permit. I, as an European citizen, would like to assist as well, so we have looked into either an E or L VISA, but both seems to have some issues and we haven't found a proper company that could assist/advise us with this. Is there anyway that I could assist on these type of projects as well?
I would be also interested to learn about companies within Massachusetts that could help us with both these questions. We contacted a few, but they didn't have the expertise we were looking for.
Any advise on this would be really appreciate!
Thank you!