Basically can H1B earn via YouTube?
Let me guess, your channel teaches leetcode / interview tips 😂. These lifestyle programming channels getting out of hand
Rule : H1B can work/earn from one employer who sponsors his visa he/she can’t run any US based business or pursue additional employment. Workaround - Map your YouTube account to an Indian bank - Your earnings will be in India and as an Indian citizen there is no rule preventing you from doing so. You do need to file taxes based on income but otherwise all clear.
How do you know that OP is Indian
I assumed because he mentioned H1B and blind is filled with Indian H1Bs . I could be wrong though. Key here is to create / map your YouTube account to bank account of the country of which you are a citizen.
No you can't. Only way to do this correctly is record your videos outside US jurisdiction as US immigration laws apply only within US boundaries. Any non volunteer work in US not part of h1b approval is illegal. Once you're back in US, getting passive royalty from your videos is legal. Within US, any non h1b work you do must be done for free and must be distributed for free ie it should be non commercial volunteer work. Same for book publishing, software publishing etc.
As I and attorney mentioned - key is working off the US economy ; If you aren’t impacting that - you are all clear Think about this - if I am an h1b and have a shop in India and I’m making phone calls from US and giving orders to add more inventory , reduce prices - will that be illegal ? Answer is No : because even though I’m working from US soil - it doesn’t impact US / economy
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