necromonger
New Member
Hi all,
Wanted to hear your thoughts on this.
I am currently in UK and my wife runs a small web business that makes a few hundred $$$ a month. She is a sole trader and our company is registered in UK.
We may soon move to US for a couple of years due to my job - I will be going on H1 so she will come as a dependent H4, which has strict rules of what she can and cannot do.
It is a bit ridiculous that I have to kill a prior existing profitable business, registered in UK, just because we moved geographic boundaries - and my wife has to suddenly stop nurturing it because we moved. But the regulations seem to imply that.
Has anyone else faced this situation? What did you do? Could we potentially nominate someone else in UK (for e.g.) to own it, while she works 'without pay' (sweat equity) until we get out of US again? Any opinions/experiences/thoughts welcome.
Thank you,
Wanted to hear your thoughts on this.
I am currently in UK and my wife runs a small web business that makes a few hundred $$$ a month. She is a sole trader and our company is registered in UK.
We may soon move to US for a couple of years due to my job - I will be going on H1 so she will come as a dependent H4, which has strict rules of what she can and cannot do.
It is a bit ridiculous that I have to kill a prior existing profitable business, registered in UK, just because we moved geographic boundaries - and my wife has to suddenly stop nurturing it because we moved. But the regulations seem to imply that.
Has anyone else faced this situation? What did you do? Could we potentially nominate someone else in UK (for e.g.) to own it, while she works 'without pay' (sweat equity) until we get out of US again? Any opinions/experiences/thoughts welcome.
Thank you,