Case study: my own E-2.

I don't publish client cases. So here is the one I can.

In 2025 I filed for an E-2 visa for Forward Thinking Press, a non-fiction publisher I founded in New York. It was approved.

The plan I filed is pulled apart section by section here.

By the time the file went in, the business wasn't an idea on paper. The company was incorporated, the website and blog were live, it had a presence on LinkedIn and a desk in a New York co-working space, and the first clients were on board. That's the standard I hold every plan to: when the officer looks, there is something to see.

Forward Thinking Press still operates: forwardthinkingpress.com

It wasn't my first company. Before the E-2 I co-founded Relocate.World, a marketplace that pairs people moving countries with vetted immigration advisors. It taught me how immigration work is bought and sold, and why cases stall on the business side rather than the legal side. I co-founded SHÄP, a rent-anything marketplace launched in Manhattan in 2022. Before either, I ran ERC, a research consultancy in Graz working on government-funded security research, which is where I learned to write documents that survive expert scrutiny.

So when a founder's business is still a paragraph in an email, I know what has to exist before the file goes in, because I had to build it for myself.