{"id":702,"date":"2012-08-25T13:35:33","date_gmt":"2012-08-25T19:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=702"},"modified":"2012-08-25T13:35:33","modified_gmt":"2012-08-25T19:35:33","slug":"e2-visa-for-a-canadian-citizen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=702","title":{"rendered":"E2 Visa for a Canadian Citizen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Can a Canadian get a green card with 30000$?\u00a0I heard I can invest 30000$ in a business and get a green card &#8211; is this correct? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I have a bachelor&#8217;s degree in commerce. Please let me know what is involved legally \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thanks<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No, you cannot obtain an investment based green card with a $30,000 investment.\u00a0You would need to invest a minimum of $500,000.\u00a0However, it may be sufficient for an E2 investor visa but $30,000 is still a little low for that.\u00a0While the law does not list a minimum investment amount, the smallest investment that our firm has received an approval for is about $50,000.\u00a0The State Department recognizes that the cost to establish a\u00a0service based business is low and that they will look at the \u201camount necessary to establish a viable enterprise.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can a Canadian get a green card with 30000$?\u00a0I heard I can invest 30000$ in a business and get a green card &#8211; is this correct? I have a bachelor&#8217;s degree in commerce. Please let me know what is involved legally \u00a0 Thanks No, you cannot obtain an investment based green card with a $30,000 &#8230; <a title=\"E2 Visa for a Canadian Citizen\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=702\" aria-label=\"Read more about E2 Visa for a Canadian Citizen\">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":[127],"tags":[264],"class_list":["post-702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-e-2-visa","tag-e-2-visa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702","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=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":703,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions\/703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}