Legal Additional Sources of Income for Visa Holders
Hi, I hope this is relevant for this forum. Even citizens and permanent residents sometimes are in need to supplement their income. Us Visa holders are heavily constrained to do so. I am wondering if anyone here has supplemented their income legally while on a work visa, meaning without violating USCIS rules, or jeopardizing a GC process. I am NOT talking about having two jobs, I am talking about sales, etc...
Only stock market and real estate on h1b
If you have enough spare capital, you could invest in a business or a startup. You cannot however work for that business or startup being the owner.
Yeah in my case the need to supplement my income is not because of excess of money, hehe.
What about network marketing? someone mentioned to me something about it being passive income. Not sure exactly what that means.
Only ~2% make a profit at the most "generous" network marketing firms. Unless you're recruiting people and managing the team like a true sales team full time, you're buying minimum quantities their products and paying fees for the right to be a network marketer.
Thanks! I'm still curious about whether or not it is valid to have a NM business while on a work visa.
Accenture underpays you and over charge their clients. Why don't you look for a job at a different company? Isn't the visa transferable?
It's L type. Yes I look at other opportunities both to find something better and to know my real value. Nothing worth the risk of moving has come along. I look at sites like Payscale and Glassdoor and I'm on the median income. Benefits are also hard to beat. I have to refresh my programming skills I've been on testing and project management recently; most of the big tech companies are huge on hands on programming skills regardless of your role. Other companies I've found value my industry experience, technical diversity and soft skills but not enough to sponsor a visa so it's not as simple to get something better.
Depending on your skill-set, freelancing online could be a legally acceptable option. 99designs has lots of available projects anybody can apply for. GL
Against visa terms
Freelancing is illegal for F1 and H1B visa holders. But, they can get away with it easily, if they are able to divert funds to foreign accounts under friend's or relative's name.