{"id":523,"date":"2012-08-22T19:23:46","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T01:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=523"},"modified":"2012-08-22T19:23:46","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T01:23:46","slug":"td-visa-holder-wants-to-open-a-business-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=523","title":{"rendered":"TD Visa Holder Wants to Open a Business in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>My wife and I are Canadian citizens currently living in the US. She\u00a0is working on TN visa and I have a TD visa.\u00a0I own an organic tea importing\/exporting business in Canada. I want to\u00a0expand that business in the US as well.\u00a0I am planning to contact the tea retail stores or cafes in the US and\u00a0negotiate a deal so that I can supply tea from Canada to those stores\u00a0in the US.\u00a0Can I do that with my current TD visa or do I need another visa?\u00a0How\u00a0much would you charge for helping me obtain the right visa?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the TD visa does not authorize employment in the US.\u00a0You would need to change your status to H1B visa or E1 visa in order to run your import\/export company from the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My wife and I are Canadian citizens currently living in the US. She\u00a0is working on TN visa and I have a TD visa.\u00a0I own an organic tea importing\/exporting business in Canada. I want to\u00a0expand that business in the US as well.\u00a0I am planning to contact the tea retail stores or cafes in the US and\u00a0negotiate &#8230; <a title=\"TD Visa Holder Wants to Open a Business in the US\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=523\" aria-label=\"Read more about TD Visa Holder Wants to Open a Business in the US\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,140,139],"tags":[274,273,142],"class_list":["post-523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-e-1-visa","category-td-visa","category-tn-visa","tag-e-1-visa","tag-td-visa","tag-tn-visa-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":524,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions\/524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}