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I am the author of the movie mentioned in the article. One precision with the E-2 visa is that the funds must come from your own pocket and you must be able to prove the source of the funds is legitimate (how you earned the money). So it is still more of an investor visa than entrepreneur.

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Hey cool, thanks for jumping in!

You said it must come from my own pocket, however my impression was that it can come from anywhere, be it an American angel investor, a Suisse one, an American VC, Israeli VC or my uncle doesn't matter.

Isn't this correct?

That's incorrect as far as I know, but if you find information that says otherwise, I would be very interested to hear about it.

PS: the only way I would see feasible would be if that person made a monetary donation to you (that money legitimately becomes your), and then you had a private contract with that person to give them shares in the company, but 1. this may run fool of the treaty laws, and 2. I doubt many investors would be willing to do that.

I really like the movie, you guys did a great job making it!

Thank you!

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