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Royal memorabilia goes back decades to the restoration of Charles II to the British throne in the 1600s. It is here that the first commemorative ceramics appeared, most popular among them being delft, slipware, and majolica.

In pre-Victorian times royal memorabilia was in limited supply and always of the highest quality and went largely to wealthy families. Lovingly cared for and handed down through the generations or passed to museums, you’ll find very few really rare pieces available on the market today.

Then came the Victorians’ with their love of all things cheap and tacky, and spawning a multitude of inexpensive collectibles depicting a royal personage or some important event. Collecting royal memorabilia was no longer just for the rich and famous, and virtually every family had its own array of battered souvenir biscuit tins, cheap ceramics, dirty food tins, stained chemist bottles – all depicting royals or important events of the day.

These latter items can turn up in profusion at boot sales, flea markets and auctions and generally they’re worth very little, especially in dirty and damaged condition. But if the price is right, say just a few pounds a go, these items are worth buying and listing for a few pounds extra on eBay and hoping for a great deal more.

Most royal collectibles from Victorian times were designed to be used, unlike their decorative counterparts from earlier times, and few clean items from the mid to late 1800s have survived the decades intact. Consequently, a clean, unbattered, still boxed Victorian piece of royal memorabilia is obviously worth a premium over imperfect pieces and can make good profits on eBay.

Pottery and china, especially quality types like Royal Doulton, Wedgwood and Delft, are among the most collectable areas of royal memorabilia and can fetch good profits. On the right day, when bidders are few, such items are always worth a risk bid at local auction. Following closely is glassware, souvenir tins, plates, figurines, dolls and other ceramics. Coins and medals are also popular, so too are ephemeral items like postcards, advertising cards, programmes and menus, magazines, headline newspapers.

For obvious reasons you’ll rarely find anything immensely valuable from the earliest times on most car boot sale stalls although they do sometimes turn up at auction. For example, at Morpeth a year or so back, a necklace engraved ‘C R’ (a commoner’s initials or the King’s cipher ‘Charles Rex’?), and dated some time in the 1600s, was estimated to fetch between £50 and £100. It went for more than £5,000, much to the annoyance of the auctioneer who learned later (once the goods had been paid for and handed over) the item was probably worth much more than five grand and had almost certainly belonged to a member of the court of Charles the Second, perhaps even Charlie Boy himself!

Okay, you won’t find things turning up like that every day and most viewers at the auction had missed the engraving anyway, but given just two non-specialist participating bidders on the day, there’s still scope to buy such an item cheap and sell it on later. To resell such an item you’d need to get specialist advice or risk losing a potential fortune. But you must not seek advice from the auction company that’s just sold a precious gem at a pittance. Their advice is obviously not sound or they’d have spotted their earlier mistake before auctioning the item. Big auction companies like Bonham’s, Phillips and Christie’s are the places to have your finds valued and potentially to have those big name companies sell for you. All have offices across the country with advisors who may even visit you to view. Once you have their advice, you’re not obliged to sell with them, you can still sell on eBay, only now you’ll be better skilled to describe your item correctly and choose an appropriate starting price and reserve.

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Today Mother’s Day or Mothering Sunday is celebrated all over the world. For florists and card shops the event is one of the highlights of the year, but the roots of Mother’s Day are not commercial.

Motherhood has been celebrated since ancient times. The ancient Greeks paid homage to Rhea, the Mother of Gods; and there are records of the ancient Romans worshiping a mother Goddess known as Cybele as early as 260 BC. Festivals took place in the spring which was the most fertile time of the year.

The more modern way of honouring mothers began in England in the 1600s where Mothering Sunday was observed on the fourth Sunday of Lent. This day is also known as ‘Refreshment Sunday’, the only day when you are allowed to eat or do whatever you have given up for Lent. Not surprisingly, families came together and took the opportunity to party with a big meal at which mother was treated as the guest of honour. Traditionally, mothers were given posies of flowers and a cake.

The term ‘Mothering Sunday’ is now falling into disuse and has mostly been replaced by ‘Mother’s Day’, which is used the world over.

In the USA there were several attempts to introduce a Mother’s Day as a way to celebrate peace and heal the scars of war. Julia Ward, who wrote the words to the Battle Hymn of the Republic, suggested the idea in 1872. But the idea didn’t really take off until Anna Jarvis campaigned for the establishment of a Mother’s Day to commemorate her own mother who died in 1905. Ward’s mother herself had tried to establish a similar holiday, Mother’s Friendship Day, to heal the pain of the Civil War.

The first Mother’s Day in the USA was held in 1907 when Julia Ward held a ceremony to honour her mother. She then successfully campaigned for a formal holiday to honour mothers and by 1911 most states had taken up the idea. This was followed in 1914 by a declaration by President Woodrow Wilson that Mother’s Day should be celebrated as a national holiday on the second Sunday in May. The idea quickly spread to Canada and Mexico and many more countries throughout the world.

The commercialisation of Mother’s Day quickly followed, much to the disgust of Anna Jarvis who was arrested in 1923 at a Mother’s Day festival for trying to stop women selling flowers. Jarvis said “I wanted it to be a day of sentiment not profit”.

Ironically Anna Jarvis campaigned for many years against the commercialisation of Mother’s Day, the day she had worked so hard to establish.

Although she had no children of her own, each Mother’s Day Anna received hundreds of cards from all over

the world. Anna Jarvis died in 1948.

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I wanted to make a three-day car reservation for a visit to San Francisco.

I called Hertz Rent-a-Car, where I am a member of the ‘Hertz Number One Club’ for frequent travelers. I planned to use an award coupon for one free-day rental from American Airlines and additional award coupons for two more free days from United Airlines.

The telephone reservations officer provided impeccable service. She greeted me pleasantly, acknowledged me as a member of the Hertz Number One Club, confirmed my dates, flights, pick-up location and choice of automobile.

Then she asked me what time I would be returning the car after the first day of rental. ‘I want the car for all three days,’ I replied.

‘You can’t keep the same car for all three days,’ she asserted. ‘After the first day you have to bring the car back and pick up a different car for the next two days. The first day is paid for with your American Airlines coupon, but the next two days are paid for with your United coupons.’

‘So what’s the difference?’, I responded. ‘I am the same person, with the same Hertz Number One Club member. I am the rightful owner of both the award coupons, and I want a Hertz automobile for three consecutive days. Surely you will let me keep the same car, so I don’t have to come back to the airport in the middle of my Bay Area vacation.’

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‘But it should work that way, don’t you agree?’, I asked, appealing to her sense of elementary logic, simple concern and practical customer care.

‘I don’t make the rules here, Mr. Kaufman. I just follow them. What time will you be returning the car after the first day?’

Somewhere within the heart of Hertz, a group of senior rule-makers live comfortably with their precise policy of ‘one airline, one coupon, one car, no exceptions’.

But somewhere close to this customer’s heart lies frustration, inconvenience and incredible disbelief.

I’m not the type of customer who gives up in these situations. When my first ‘one-day’ reservation began, I had a long chat with the most senior Hertz rental manager I could find. He let me keep the same car for all three days.

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Elementary logic and practical customer care are the best rules to use in many situations. At Nordstroms clothing store, famous for excellent service, they simply tell the staff: `The rule is to use your common sense. There are no other rules.’

Action Steps

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If your rules and regulations don’t make sense to your customers, they need to be rewritten. If you can see logic where your customers cannot, it’s not your customers’ sight that needs refocusing.

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Perhaps the greatest luxury I have in this business is the ability to observe the experiences of many traders with different personalities, life schedules and risk capital, each trading in a variety of markets। What most astute brokers realize is that, over time, as some individuals prematurely exit winners while others desperately cling to losers, it becomes quite possible to match different “blood types” of those traders with their correct “trading diets.”

Clearly, we’re not talking the medical blood type here, but in the figurative sense it makes the right point. With practice, it’s not too hard to determine blood types (type of trading best suited to the individual) based on the personality of the trader, and then prescribe a diet based on that individual trader’s capital, experience, risk profile and schedule.

Discovering Your Blood Type and Trading Diet

Just like a diet, where there is no right plan for everyone, in trading there is no single plan for all traders. Before deciding whether to “cut out the carbs,” “add more fiber,” or simply avoid certain markets, do some self-assessment, starting with personality. For example, are you hesitant or impulsive? Patient or short-tempered? Identify strengths and weaknesses, and then let someone close to you help pinpoint those personality pros and cons. Have a tough skin; it’s for your own good.

To further understand your personality, keep a trading journal to help zone in on specific traits and how they affect your trading. Remember, understanding your personality is one thing; understanding it when you’re trading is another. While patience with children is good, patience with a losing trade is not. A journal enables traders to review winning and losing trades and identify factors that aided in success or contributed to failure. After reviewing inner traits, don’t forget to review the outer ones–your schedule and risk capital. Think long and hard about how much you have available in terms of time and risk capital when it comes to trading, and don’t delude yourself. In addition, look at how you are using your time and risk capital. Go over the market(s) you are trading, the style of trading and time frames you are using. Is this market, this style and this time frame suitable to your risk capital and personal schedule? Are they suitable to your personality?

Doing some self-assessment is absolutely essential to determining what type of trading diet you should be on, as the examples later will make clear. But first let’s define the trading blood types and their respective diets.

Blood Types and Trading Diets

No A-positive or universal donor types are necessary here. Instead, for our purposes, let’s classify types by using NT, PT, DT and ST.

NT. Is trading suitable for you at all? That is the question. Trading require a desire to take risks and, of course, the ability to afford to take them. These simple suitability questions must be firmly answered in the affirmative before anyone can consider taking the plunge. Those who have little desire for risk, have little risk capital to spare (and completely disposable income at that) and little time to devote to this very challenging exploit are classified as blood type NT (No Trading). The right diet is no trading at all. No carbs, no cals, no fiber, no fat. Nada.

PT. Those who are either gun-shy or trigger happy would be classified as blood type PT (Position Trading). With what kind of regime, you ask? Clearly this type requires a rule-based diet. To develop those rules first and foremost means doing some homework after market hours. Once these rules are in place, test any possible trade idea against those guidelines because each trade must pass this test before Mr. or Ms. PT enters the trade. This is the time to plan a trade from start to finish, visualizing a few different scenarios with a possible action plan. It may also be the time to employ the assistance of a full-service broker. His or her job should be to help implement the rules that will keep the trigger-happy trader from going nuts or help the trader with a fear of pulling the trigger to take the right kinds of actions.

DT. Some traders simply cannot take any positions home with them. It hurts the quality of their “after-trading-hours life” and makes them uncomfortable. Most of them also are impatient by nature and tend to over trade. They feel a need to be in the market at all times because they are scared of missing a good trade and scared of losing too much. This blood type is classified as DT (Day Trading).

Patience, discipline and strategy are the main diet ingredients for this group, but certainly not exclusive to it. Setting daily loss limits is a must, and a daily trading journal will help them quite a bit. The correct training cycle for successful day trading involves education, planning, routine, survival and getting to the point where a trader finds the set ups with which he is both most comfortable and can produce high success rates. A note here: More often than not, the biggest obstacle DTs face is the patience for such a set up; they feel they are not working if they are not trading, because they are day traders. This is one mentally crippling thought they must get over to survive. Being a day trader does not mean that the individual must be in the market with frequency — only that he must be flat at the end of the session so as not to take his position(s) home with him.

ST. Then there are traders who try to go with the flow of the market and take small to medium bites out of market ranges or, perhaps, trade ranging markets between different support and resistance levels. Many will do it well for a period of time until they are almost married to it and get stuck with a loser. Let’s classify this group as blood type ST (Swing Trading).

The biggest problem most swing traders have is the ability to take losses. Too many traders — even those who generally are good, consistent traders — fail by carrying one big loser one too many times. Is this stubbornness, the inability to admit making a wrong move(s), simply a case of hoping instead of trading? Those who have walked in these shoes know who they are and should be ready for the ST diet — placing stops and understanding that even the best of traders have more losers than winners. The math is very simple. Because many markets will trade sideways, there are times when both longs and shorts will come out losers. Some trades simply don’t work. The bottom line is that the total of a person’s winning trades should outnumber losing trades.

How Two Traders Changed Their Diets

The following two examples, which combine traits of various clients with whom I’ve worked over the years, point out some of the considerations of which traders must be mindful as they try to figure out what trading diet is most appropriate. The names have been changed to protect both the “innocent” and the “guilty.”

Example #1. Karen was one of my first clients. A smart and outgoing woman, she worked in the human resources department for a large company. During her first two years, she had some winning trades but, overall, her account was down.

Karen juggled a busy schedule everyday. She had numerous meetings and often traveled, yet she insisted on day trading stock index futures. I tried to direct her into a different approach, but she resisted.

My advice did not sink in until she hit a period during which all of her trades were going against her, and she was facing a margin call. When I spoke with Karen, her normally self-assured demeanor had changed. She was scared. She was no longer looking forward to the next trading day. After losing most of her money, Karen struggled to make a trading decision. The once confident, outgoing and independent trader was now grasping for outside advice from a variety of newsletters and other resources. She was desperate.

On the morning after a long holiday weekend, Karen called me and with a steady, confident voice, placed orders to get herself out of all of her positions. Over the weekend, she had read a book or two and had some conversations with her husband. It’s hard to determine which of these produced the “epiphany,” but she now wanted to try a different approach — one of a longer-term nature (PT). After careful reflection, Karen recognized that she was at times impulsive, stubborn and simply not realistic (not good for a DT).

Even though she clearly could not devote the time necessary to be a day trader with her current work schedule and mentality, she realized that her routine and dedication must change completely no matter what the trading time frame. She was now dedicating 30 minutes during the day and/or evening to go over the markets. She adjusted her trading size to fit a longer-term approach but, most importantly, she had a plan, and that plan fit her schedule. She no longer had to make decisions in the heat of the moment. She started looking for longer-term trends that did not require hour-to-hour decision making.

Doing some self-assessment is absolutely essential to determining what type of trading diet you should be on, as the examples later will make clear. But first let’s define the trading blood types and their respective diets.

Karen finally understood how to successfully incorporate trading into her life while having another demanding career. Her account has grown over the last two years through the changes she implemented in her routine, behavior and trading style.

Example #2. John started trading about four years ago. He seemed an agreeable enough person, but very business-like with no time for chit-chat. He wanted to trade online from the start because he had plenty of stock trading experience. John lived on the West Coast and was a real estate agent who did pretty well in the dot com bull market trading stocks until the market met its maker. Confident, willing to learn and fairly disciplined, he was trading with $25,000 of pure risk capital, adequate for a first-time futures trader.

Days went by and every morning as I was going over my clients’ daily statements, I noticed that John was trading coffee. Not only was he trading coffee, but he was sometimes day trading coffee. I let him know that I would be pleased to talk with him about various markets if he wanted. He would call once in a while checking on fills and asking about different reports.

A few weeks down the road, John called and mentioned he would be in the L.A. area and would like to meet for lunch. During lunch, he mentioned his frustration over recent losses when trading futures. At this point, his account was down to about $14,000 over a six-month period. I asked him why he was attempting to day trade coffee, and he said his brother-in-law was a coffee importer/exporter, and he thought that it would help him. The coffee market was open from 6:15 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. PST, which perfectly suited his work schedule, but as I found out later, not his personality.

I asked him to start writing a trading journal, which allowed him to look back objectively and find patterns in behavior that both helped him and hindered him. John’s journal revealed that he was frustrated with the slow fills of the open-outcry coffee market, and so he was quick to get out of winning trades and too slow getting out of his losers. He was trigger happy and at times traded larger positions than he should have.

I suggested that we change his “trading diet” around a bit and introduced him to the U.S. Treasury bond and the E-Mini stock index futures; both trade electronically and provide instant fills. These markets were perfect both for his schedule and personality.

I felt that these were good markets for both day trading and swing trading and recommended a few concepts in money management and trade management. The first was the maximum daily loss that he should set and place in a visible way as a reminder. The second was the setting of a daily profit target. Though it was somewhat hard to implement, if he could walk away when he was down to his maximum daily loss or when he reached his daily profit target, he would last much longer as a trader. It also would give him a better chance of succeeding down the road — in other words, smaller steps down that longer road.

John is still down in his account, but he is making progress. Here are a few tips that have helped him: Instead of buying and selling five contracts at a time and “starting and finishing” the trade this way, he now gets into his trades in multiples of three. In the past, John simply would buy five contracts when he thought he needed to go long and sell five when he felt he needed to take profits or cut his losses.

When John gets into a trade these days (let’s say in a long position), he will buy six contracts and place a stop loss on all six. Initially, he looks for a small profit on the first two contracts. (It helps him mentally to know “I took a profit on this trade.”) He then raises his stop loss and changes it to a four lot. He looks for a second profit target for two more contracts based on his support and resistance levels. If that profit level is reached, he can get “greedy” with the last two contracts. In essence, he now knows how to manage his trades in a way that increases his profitability. And, further, and perhaps as importantly (based on his personality), he does not feel like he is missing out on big moves if they happen, and he still locks in small profits when they present themselves by using the first and second targets.

Be Realistic

Succeeding in futures trading takes hard work and time, and new traders need to be realistic and introspective right from the start. This is no time to devote anything but risk capital. Beginners should start small, allowing periodic checks to learn from mistakes, and from successes.

Just like anything else in life, from diet and exercise to business and career choice, one size does not fit all. Before anyone can succeed in trading, he or she must spend time doing homework, as well as ascertain personal strengths and weaknesses, schedule, risk capital and trading experience/ knowledge. Only with those in place, can traders choose the trading diet that will work for their blood type.

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Frequent hotel guests are becoming more familiar with the growing presence of digital signs in lobbies, near hotel restaurants and bars and even outside meeting rooms.

That’s not too surprising. A recent forecast from market researcher iSuppli Corp. indicated the indoor-venue market for digital signs, which includes hotels, will reach 683,000 units this year and increase at a 26 percent compounded annual growth rate to 1.7 million units in 2010.

According iSuppli, a good deal of the growth will come as hoteliers continue to transition from guest room TVs to flat panel displays, like plasma and LCD screens, and target guests with customized information and entertainment. With the ability to deliver the same information displayed in lobbies to in-room displays, hoteliers can offer guests quick access to what’s happening in their facilities from the comfort and privacy of guest rooms.

“How guests perceive their rooms can be more powerful than any other factors in terms of the way they view a hotel’s overall value,” said Sanju Khatri, principal analyst for projection and large-screen displays at iSuppli. “Delivering a variety of in-room entertainment options may promote greater guest satisfaction, leading to repeat business.”

While technology can’t replace the human dimension of effective customer service, it has a place in equation, reported The Wall Street Journal. A recent article discussed the use of interactive directories by the Westfield Group designed to replace the traditional static mall map.

While the application centers on a retail use, lessons learned from the rollout of 19 such directories at the Westfield San Francisco Centre are appropriate for hoteliers as well. The directories, along with 11 concierges, guide shoppers to the right store, display bus and train schedules and can be used to make reservations for shoppers at local restaurants.

That same sort of interactivity and convenience -both in-room and in public areas like lobbies- can help to create customer loyalty among guests, attracting repeat business from road weary travelers who know that guest services, reservations and other helpful information is a remote click or screen touch away.

According to a recent article in The New York Times, the hotel market in the United States currently is experiencing a boom. Quoting figures from Smith Travel Research, the newspaper reported that the occupancy rate for the first nine months of 2006 was 65.2 percent.

Boosting occupancy rates further may in large part depend on how well guests are treated. A recent article in The International Herald Tribune, pointed out that personalized services -everything from nursing ill business travelers’ back to health to delivering guest-requested once-over fashion inspections- offer the industry a way to connect on a personal level with its guests and induce them to return on their next trip.

The appeal of such services to guests is self-evident. What might not be so apparent is how hotel managers looking to minimize costs can deliver them without increasing staff. Based on the success of the Westfield Group with its interactive mall directories, digital signage might be the key.

When properly designed in-room and out-of-room digital signage can transparently collect data from hotel computer management systems, automatically display that information and even connect guests interactively to hotel services and those of preferred vendors. In the process, it can relieve hotel staff from some of their traditional tasks, allowing them to focus on delivering the personalized services that ingratiate the hotel with its guests and create customer loyalty.

While forecasts like iSuppli Corp.’s envision strong growth for digital signage in hotels over the next few years, those predictions will only come to fruition if the technology can help hoteliers succeed in attracting and building a loyal customer base. With the ability to serve up the information guests need and free existing staff to take even better care of hotel guests, the use of digital signage at hotels is likely to achieve its growth projections.

David Little is a digital signage authority with 20 years of experience helping professionals use technology to expand their marketing messages with alternative media [http://www.keywesttechnology.com/keywest-blog/in-store-advertising-potential-79.html]. For further insight, download my free white paper Why Digital Signage Works at www.keywesttechnology.com. It gives a quick overview from an industry perspective on the fundamentals of digital signage. Included are some recently published findings by Neilsen Media Research on the measured impact of strategically placed digital signs.

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Q. Do I actually need an E visa to reside in the United States if I own a US business?

A. Unless you are a U.S. Citizen or a U.S. Green Card holder, you must be in possession of a valid have a visa in order to enter the United States in Treaty Trader or Treaty Investor status. Further, all successful E visa applicants and their dependents are expected to present valid passports in order to be issued the visa, regardless of nationality.

Q. I received a change of status in the United States from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). Is that all that I need to present in order to be issued an E visa at the U.S. Embassy or U.S. Consulate?

A. No. The change of status simply allows you to remain in the United States until the expiration of the status granted. If you have been granted a change of status by USCIS and leave the U.S., you must have an E visa in your passport in order to return to the U.S. in that status. To obtain a visa you must lodge a complete application with the appropriate U.S. Embassy or U.S. Consulate. Adjudication of your case can vary from two weeks to six months, depending on which U.S. Embassy or U.S. Consulate is deciding your case.

Q. How much money do I need to invest?

A. There is no minimum amount for an investment. E-2 visa regulations state that the investment must be sufficient to ensure success of the business. As different types of businesses require different amounts of capital, the amount you will need to invest depends on your U.S. enterprise.

Q. Do I really have to invest the money before I apply for the visa? Can’t the United States government issue me the visa first?

A. E-2 visa regulations state that the funds must be “irrevocably committed” to the investment before the visa may be issued. Therefore, you must document that your investment meets this criteria at the time of initial application; this is usually accomplished by showing that the investment has already been made. Funds can be considered to be irrevocably committed, however, if they are held in an escrow account solely contingent on the issuance of an E visa.

Q. Must the business be trading at the time I lodge my E-2 visa application?

A. Yes. The relevant E-2 visa regulations state that the enterprise must be “real and active”. Most U.S. Embassies and consular posts interpret this to mean that the business must be actively trading at the time your E-2 visa application is lodged.

Q. How can I possibly start a business if I don’t have the visa?

A. You may enter the United States in B-1 (temporary business) visa status in order to set up (not run) your business. You may not be paid in the U.S. while in B-1 status. If your enterprise requires someone to manage or run daily operations, you may hire individuals who are already properly documented to work in the U.S. prior to receiving your visa. Once you have the initial commitments completed, you should apply immediately for the E visa.

Q. How long do I have to wait before I can apply for a “green card” or U.S. citizenship?

A. An E visa is a non-immigrant visa and does not lead to either a “green card” or U.S. Citizenship. You may remain in the U.S. only as long as your business conforms to E visa regulations, assuming you maintain proper visa and immigration status.

Q. Do I need an immigration attorney?

A. There is no legal requirement that you hire an attorney to lodge your E visa application. While many E Visa applicants choose to retain the services of an attorney to aid in the preparation of their case, others do not. It is to your advantage, however, to engage the services of a competent immigration attorney or law firm that is fully familiar with the specific procedures observed by the U.S. Embassy or U.S. Consulate in your home country. Failure to observe these procedures will certainly result in significant time delays, may seriously prejudice the outcome of your case, and may result in irreversible financial consequences.

Q. Where can I get information about good places to invest in the U.S.?

A. Please contact our office for more information.

Q. What licenses and permits do I need to open and run a business in the United States?

A. Licensing and permit requirements vary by state and county and with the type of business you wish to operate. For specific information, you should contact the appropriate government offices in the locality where you plan to start your business. Alternatively, you may retain the services of a law firm to make the required inquiries on your behalf.

Q. I already own an E company and want to employ someone who is not in the U.S. Can employees of an E company qualify for an E visa to work in my U.S. enterprise?

A. To qualify for an E visa as the employee of an E company, the applicant must have the same citizenship as the owners of the E company. Additionally, the job to be performed must be executive or supervisory in nature, or the employee must possess skills which are essential to the operation of the U.S. enterprise.

Q. Can my spouse and children work in the U.S.?

A. Effective January 16, 20002, dependent spouses of E visa holders are eligible to apply for work authorization from USCIS. Children of E visa holders are not permitted to work in the United States unless they independently qualify for employment authorization, such as an E, H, or L visa.

Q. My spouse (or child) uses a different surname than I do. Is that a problem?

A. A dependent whose surname differs from the surname of the E visa holder should have on-hand proof of the relationship (a marriage certificate for spouses or birth certificates for children, for example).

Q. Can my fiancé(e), common law or same-sex partner accompany me?

A. Under U.S. immigration law, a legal marriage must exist before one is considered to be a spouse. Therefore, fiancé(e)s, common law or same-sex partners do not qualify for derivative E visa status. Other avenues may be available to assist those applicants in such a situation. Please contact our firm for more details.

Q. My spouse and/or children are citizens of a country other than my own. Can they still accompany me?

A. The spouse and children (defined as unmarried and under 21 years of age) do not need to have the same citizenship as the principal applicant. However, dependents of E visa holders are required to have visas in order to accompany the principal applicant to the U.S.

Q. Will I have to appear before the U.S. Embassy or U.S. Consulate in person?

A. For all categories of visas, including Treaty Visas, each applicant age 14 or older must appear for a personal interview before a Consular Officer. In all cases, each applicant (including those under 14 years of age), must be physically present in the country of application at the time of issuance. Those applicants who are found to be ineligible for a U.S. visa for criminal convictions, immigration violations, drug charges, or other similar reasons may have to appear to determine grounds of ineligibility and applicability of a waiver for any such ineligibility. In such cases the applicant must be prepared for a wait of up to 180 days weeks while eligibility is confirmed and/or a waiver requested.

Q. How long does the processing normally take?

A. Processing times vary greatly between the various U.S. Embassies and U.S. Consulates. For example, the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City can process an E-2 visa case in one week, while the U.S. Embassy in London can take up to 6 months to process a case. Generally speaking, if your initial submission is not complete, then your case will not be officially “received” or it may be kicked back to allow you to provide the missing information. Upon resubmission of the case, it will generally be placed at the back of the processing queue. Please note that frequently an applicant’s submission will require clarification or additional information before the adjudicating officer can make a determination of eligibility. If this is the case, you (or your attorney of record) will be notified in writing.

Q. Will it speed up the processing if I send my passport to the U.S. government at the time that I lodge my application?

A. No. You should not send passports until it is requested by the U.S. Embassy or U.S. Consulate. Submitting passports early can delay the processing of your case.

Q. I paid $100.00 USD when I applied. Why is there an additional fee for issuance?

A. The $100.00 USD fee you paid at the time of application is called the Machine-Readable Visa (MRV) processing fee. This non-refundable fee is charged to all applicants for non-immigrant visas regardless of whether the application is approved. Once your case has been approved, there may be an additional fee for issuance of the visa. This fee is called a “reciprocity fee” and is determined by the fees that your country of citizenship charges U.S. citizens for similar visas. The E visa reciprocity fee for a Canadian citizen, for example, is currently $40.00 USD.

Q. I’ve read all this information, and I still have questions. Who can answer them?

A. Please review all of the information provided on our website for any general questions about the E-2 visa. If after reviewing the website, you find that your specific questions have not been answered, we invite you to contact our office by email or by telephone.

Q. I am a citizen of the United Kingdom. Are there any special requirements or restrictions are applicable to me?

A. The U.S. Embassy in London processes E visas for all of the United Kingdom. See the U.S. Embassy website for further details. To qualify for an E-2 Treaty Investor Visa, citizens of the United Kingdom must actually reside in the United Kingdom, and proof of this must be submitted as part of the E-2 registration and application process.

Q. I am a citizen of Australia presently residing in the United Kingdom. Must I lodge my E-2 visa application in the United Kingdom or in Australia?

A. A citizen of one of the other qualifying treaty countries who is resident in the United Kingdom may lodge an E visa application at the U.S. Embassy in London. The relevant treaty either may or may not allow one to lodge an application in ones home country. In the case of a citizen of Australia, filing in Australia is permitted and may save significant processing time. By contrast, a citizen of Spain residing in the United Kingdom is not presently allowed to file an E-2 visa application in Spain. Please ring our London office for more details about this.

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Orlando Ortega-Medina is lead counsel for the U.S. business immigration law firm of Ortega-Medina & Associates, headquartered in London, England (UK). The firm also maintains an Of Counsel relationship with The Erlich Firm in San Francisco, California. Mr. Ortega-Medina has particular expertise and insight into complex U.S. business immigration cases, and is frequently engaged by other counsel to troubleshoot visa denials.

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