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🛑 MYTH: "Once I get my Green Card, I'm automatically a U.S. citizen."FACT: A Green Card makes you a permanent resident —...
10/23/2026

🛑 MYTH: "Once I get my Green Card, I'm automatically a U.S. citizen."

FACT: A Green Card makes you a permanent resident — able to live and work in the U.S. indefinitely. Citizenship is a separate step, available later through naturalization.

Knowing the difference matters for travel, taxes, and long-term planning.

Want to understand exactly where you'd stand at each stage? Let's talk.

📅 Book Your Free Background Review Call → https://calendly.com/d/d2gm-2vt-9p2/background-review-call?month=2026-07

+ TechCrunch Disrupt: highlights from the trip of our CEO Katya Stelmakh.🌍 Immigrant Founder Pitch at the Georgian Inn...
10/22/2026

+ TechCrunch Disrupt: highlights from the trip of our CEO Katya Stelmakh.

🌍 Immigrant Founder Pitch at the Georgian Innovation Hub
First-time founders, repeat entrepreneurs, and the investors backing them, plus inspiring speeches from Manan Mehta (Unshackled Ventures), Eugene Malobrodskydsky (One Way Ventures), Alexander Zemlyak (Geek Ventures), and Mikola (Nick) Bilogorskiy 🇺🇦 (Dnipro VC).

🛡️ A Patent-Pending Party by moatly
Kathryn V. talking about moat protection to founders and investors. Defensibility isn’t an afterthought; it’s part of the strategy.

🇵🇱 Polish Innovation Evening aboard the Historic Klamath at Pier 9
Connecting Poland’s innovation ecosystem with Silicon Valley, a magical evening aboard a historic ship with some of the best views San Francisco has to offer.

🇺🇦 Ukrainian Venture Night by TechEmbassy
Proud to have sponsored this one: a full pitch competition, investor feedback sessions, and a speech from Dmytro Kushneruk, Consul of Ukraine in San Francisco. Huge congrats to the winning pitch – a Ukrainian energy company building through incredibly difficult circumstances back home.

🧖 Sauna & Cold Plunge for Funded Founders
Proud to sponsor, because founders need recovery too. We capped it off with dinner hosted by Press Club at a nearby Mediterranean spot.

Grateful to everyone who organized, spoke, pitched, and showed up.

10/21/2026

Leaving your H-1B job to start your own company changes more than your title — it changes your immigration picture too. 🚀

We've guided professionals through exactly this transition: structuring a qualifying U.S. business, documenting investment, and building a case (often E-2 or EB-2 NIW) around their new venture.

Thinking about making the jump from employee to founder? Let's map out what it means for your status before you take the leap.

10/21/2026

Relocating a key employee to the U.S.? The visa you need depends on one thing: their relationship to your company. 🏢➡️🇺🇸

L-1 works when someone has spent at least a year at your company abroad and is moving into a managerial, executive, or specialized role in the U.S. — no labor certification needed.

O-1A works when the person's individual track record (not the company relationship) is the strongest asset.

Planning an internal transfer? Let's figure out which path fits your team.
📅 Book Your Free Background Review Call → https://calendly.com/d/d2gm-2vt-9p2/background-review-call?month=2026-07

Not all "proof" is created equal in the eyes of USCIS. 📂A recommendation letter that says "she's brilliant" does far les...
10/19/2026

Not all "proof" is created equal in the eyes of USCIS. 📂

A recommendation letter that says "she's brilliant" does far less than one that says "her framework reduced processing time by 40% and is now used across three departments."

Specific, verifiable, and impact-driven evidence is what moves a case forward.

Not sure if what you have is strong enough? Let's review it together.

10/16/2026

Today wraps up Hispanic Heritage Month — and it feels right to talk about the immigrant founders and professionals we work with every day. 🌟

So many arrive with incredible drive and results, without realizing their own achievements — their business, their leadership, their expertise — can be the foundation of their own visa or Green Card case.

You don't have to wait for someone else to open the door.

If that sounds like your story, let's talk about what your path could look like.

📅 Book Your Free Background Review Call → https://calendly.com/d/d2gm-2vt-9p2/background-review-call?month=2026-07

Great companies are built through bold ideas, strong teams, and the right connections.This week, Stelmakh & Associates i...
10/15/2026

Great companies are built through bold ideas, strong teams, and the right connections.

This week, Stelmakh & Associates is at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 in San Francisco, connecting with the founders, investors, and innovators shaping the future of technology. The event brings together the startup ecosystem for conversations on fundraising, product development, and scaling businesses.

Why are we there? Because supporting founders means understanding more than immigration law. It means understanding their ambitions, growth plans, and the challenges that come with building a company in the U.S.

For international founders and talented professionals, immigration can be an important part of that journey — from exploring the right visa options to planning for long-term growth.

We’re proud to be part of the conversations and connections helping ambitious businesses move forward.

Building something in the U.S.? Let’s connect.

10/14/2026

Think you need investors to qualify for a U.S. business visa? You don't. 💪

The E-2 Treaty Investor Visa is built for founders who put their own capital into a real, operating U.S. business — no venture funding required, no minimum set by law, just an investment that's "substantial" relative to the business.

Bootstrapped and building something real? That may be exactly what E-2 is looking for.

Let's see if your business qualifies.
📅 Book Your Free Background Review Call

10/08/2026

What happens when founders, operators, investors, and an immigration law firm come together during SF Tech Week?

You get conversations about building companies, navigating uncertainty, entering new markets, and making bold decisions in a rapidly changing tech landscape.

Yesterday, Katya Stelmakh and Olga Prygoda represented Stelmakh & Associates at Belarusian Founders: Making Hard Decisions in a World of AI in San Francisco.

For us, being part of events like this is about more than networking. It’s about understanding the businesses our clients are building and the challenges founders face as they scale internationally.

AI is changing the way companies are built. And for many founders, international expansion and access to the U.S. market are becoming part of that growth strategy.

We’re always glad to be in the room, listen, connect, and share our perspective on the immigration side of building globally.

Thank you to everyone who joined the conversation and to the organizers for bringing the community together during .

Immigration lawyers should understand the businesses they represent.That’s one of the reasons Katya Stelmakh and Olga Pr...
10/07/2026

Immigration lawyers should understand the businesses they represent.

That’s one of the reasons Katya Stelmakh and Olga Prygoda are at SF Tech Week today, joining founders, operators, and investors at the Belarusian Founders gathering in San Francisco.

We work with founders who are building companies, raising capital, entering new markets, hiring teams, and expanding internationally.

Being part of the startup ecosystem gives us the opportunity to hear directly from the people behind those businesses — and to better understand the opportunities and challenges that shape their U.S. immigration needs.

We’re looking forward to meeting founders, exchanging ideas, and being part of the conversation today.

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