H1B/H4 selling crafts in small scale using paypal?

sky88

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Dear all

My wife and I plan to sell some stuff in ebay or have a website that sell some beads jewelries. All payments will be done through paypal. Are we allowed to do that under USCIS's laws? It's more like a personal hobby thing rather than a busines venture, so I hope this will not have any negative impact to my GC filling?? Afterall, USCIS is not going through my personal paypal account right? (bad assumption??!! :confused: )

Or should I register a business and hire someone to do the work. I read/heard that we can start/own a business, but as an H1B, we can only be an passive owner/investor, not actively running the daily operations of that business, is that true?

Pls advise

Life is tough

Thanks in advance

Sky
 
passive investor only

You are correct on the passive investor.

I inquired with a lawyer about buying out a small business recently. I could only be a "financial" / Non Day-to-day operations investor. USCIS laws prevent temporary resident aliens from starting / operating a business.

So USCIS laws allows you to invest in a company (like stock purchase) from stock exchange or in a silent partnership.
 
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