Immigration business plans, written to the rule for your visa category

The last column describes the regulation's wording. Whether to file a plan is your attorney's decision. Under 22 CFR 41.51, a consular officer decides an E-1 or E-2 visa applied for abroad.

One document, written as evidence rather than as a sales pitch, and read alongside the rest of your filing. Ours contain an executive summary that states the visa category and the claim being made; the ownership and entity structure; the source and use of the invested funds, tied line by line to what has been spent or committed; a market analysis with cited sources rather than assertions; an operations plan covering premises, licensing, suppliers and timeline; a staffing plan naming every role, its wage and the month it is hired; five years of financials: profit and loss, cash flow and balance sheet; and appendices for the lease, quotes, licenses and letters your attorney wants attached. Five years is our standard, not a rule on every route.

Two things separate this from a lender or investor plan. The first is consistency: the plan is one exhibit in a file, so the investment total, the hiring schedule and the payroll line in the financials have to agree with each other and with what your attorney has written elsewhere. The second is that nothing is asserted without a basis: a job count is only as good as the schedule and payroll behind it, and a market figure only as good as its source. A contradiction inside your own evidence is the one problem you can remove before you file.

The work is led by Muhammad Tayyab Shabbir, founder of Avvale, the London consultancy whose US practice is Business Plan Firm. We have written 1,000+ plans for 500+ founders across 30+ countries, and our clients have raised $500M+. Plans are drafted in-house and reviewed line by line before you or your attorney see them.

Three fixed prices, $1,900, $2,400 or $3,200, agreed on the call before anything is written. What moves you between them is the evidentiary load of the category, not the page count. A single-owner E-2, or an L-1 backed by an established parent company, sits in Essential. EB-5 direct filings carry the job creation schedule and source of funds narrative; EB-2 NIW plans tie each claim to independent evidence: Standard. Regional center work and filings that need economic impact modeling: Premium. Filing fees, attorney fees and the investment itself are separate, and we charge no success fee or percentage of anything. See every price we charge.

If you also need the numbers as a standalone deliverable, or the market evidence built out further than the plan requires, say so on the call: we quote the financial model or market research with it as one fixed price.

Less than you might expect: we do not need your immigration file or your travel history. We need the commercial facts, and where a fact does not exist yet we write the assumption down and label it.

If the venture itself is still unproven, site not chosen, model not tested, capital not yet committed, a plan written to a visa checklist is not the document that resolves it. A feasibility study tests whether the thing works and is allowed to conclude that it does not.

Essential packages include one revision round (on immigration plans, a free RFE-directed revision) and Standard packages include unlimited revisions within the agreed scope. You and your attorney mark up the draft, we rewrite, and that continues until you are both satisfied. Turnaround on the finished plan is 7 to 14 days from the call, depending on the category and how much of your own information is ready. Tell us the filing date on the call: if it is not achievable, you hear that on day zero rather than in week three.

If a Request for Evidence arrives and it touches the plan, the revision is free. We address what the officer asked for, in the language the notice uses. Send us the notice and its deadline the day you receive it. A different business is not covered: a new location, a different investment amount, a new entity or a change of category is new work, quoted separately.

USCIS may deny a filing that lacks required initial evidence without issuing an RFE first (8 CFR 103.2(b)(8)(ii)): Policy Alert PA-2026-05 of 5 August 2026 updated USCIS guidance "to restore USCIS officers' full discretion to deny such benefit requests", and 8 CFR 103.2(a)(1)(v) says "Filing fees generally are non-refundable regardless of the outcome of the benefit request".

No consultant can promise an approval, and any who does is selling something they do not control. The outcome is not ours to decide, and the plan is one exhibit among everything else your attorney files. What we control is the document.

When we are asked to rescue a plan written elsewhere, one the attorney will not put in front of an officer, these are the problems we check for first.

One more is less visible: contradiction with the rest of the file, where the plan says one thing and the forms, the source-of-funds trail or the lease say another. That is why we take the brief from your attorney up front and send every draft to you both together.

Not under the O-1 texts we read: the phrase is absent from 8 CFR 214.2(o) and the nine chapters of USCIS Policy Manual Volume 2, Part M. Under (o)(2)(ii) a petition must carry the classification evidence, contracts or a summary of an oral agreement (B), a written advisory opinion (D) and, at (C):

An explanation of the nature of the events or activities, the beginning and ending dates for the events or activities, and a copy of any itinerary for the events or activities

Under (o)(2)(iv)(A), work in more than one location needs an itinerary. The manual's Chapter 3 says "a separate legal entity owned by the beneficiary, such as a corporation or limited liability company, may file the petition on their behalf"; whether your own company can do so on your facts is your attorney's question. For an O-1A, Chapter 4 says officers may consider a startup's significant funding, commensurate with its stage and industry, "as a positive factor regarding its distinguished reputation".

Under (o)(6)(iii)(A), approval runs for the time the Director finds "necessary to accomplish the event or activity, not to exceed 3 years"; under (o)(12)(ii), extensions come in "increments of up to 1 year". Chapter 9 says a petitioner "must establish that there are events or activities" for the validity period requested.

Form I-129 filing fees for an O petition (Form G-1055, edition 10/07/26): a small employer (25 or fewer full-time equivalent US employees, affiliates included) pays $530 + $300 Asylum Program Fee = $830; a regular petitioner on paper, $1,055 + $600 = $1,655.

If counsel wants the activities explanation and venture narrative drafted, that is an Essential plan at $1,900; no rule we read requires it.

We would rather say this now than take the fee:

• You have not retained an immigration attorney yet. Do that first. The plan is written to their strategy, and a plan commissioned before the attorney is in place is written to a strategy that does not exist yet.
• What you actually want is "do I qualify?" That is a legal question for an immigration attorney. A consultant who tells you that you qualify is not doing you a favor.
• You are investing into a regional center EB-5 project. Ask your attorney whether a separate plan adds anything to what the project already provides before you buy one.
• Your route is the International Entrepreneur Rule (entrepreneur parole, Form I-941). A business plan is not what that rule asks for: the phrase appears nowhere in 8 CFR 212.19, Form I-941 or its instructions, or the seven Policy Manual chapters on entrepreneur parole. The regulation asks for money already received, "a qualified investment amount of at least $311,071 from one or more qualified investors" or at least $124,429 in government awards or grants, or, under (b)(2)(iii), where a threshold is only partly met, "other reliable and compelling evidence of the start-up entity's substantial potential for rapid growth and job creation". Under (a)(4), "Such an investment shall not include an investment, directly or indirectly, from the entrepreneur". USCIS's quarterly reports show 20 applications received and 0 approved from 1 October 2024 to 30 June 2026. Settle the route with immigration counsel before you commission anything.
• The money is a US loan, not a visa. Then you want an SBA loan business plan or our standard business plan service, both of which cost less.
• You are raising equity and need a room to say yes. That is a pitch deck job, and often a financial model alongside it.
• You want a guaranteed outcome. Nobody can sell you one. We will not pretend otherwise to win the work.

Every quotation was checked character for character against raw source text retrieved between 5 and 10 October 2026.

• Regulations and statute: 8 CFR 214.2, 204.5, 204.6 and 212.19 and 22 CFR 41.51, 2025 annual editions, checked against current Legal Information Institute text (quoted for L-1 and 8 CFR 103.2); 8 U.S.C. 1153. On 2 July 2026 DHS proposed to remove and replace 8 CFR 204.6 (91 FR 40676); not final as of 10 October 2026.
• Guidance: 9 FAM 402.9; USCIS Policy Manual Volume 6, Part F, Chapter 5, Volume 2, Part M (Chapters 3, 4 and 9 quoted) and Volume 3, Part G; Policy Alert PA-2026-05; USCIS's entrepreneur pathways page.
• Fees, forms and counts: Form G-1055, edition 10/07/26; Form I-941 and instructions; USCIS all-forms reports for FY2025 and FY2026 Q3.

Other texts: see the route guides. Left out for lack of a source: approval rates, processing times, any single USCIS plan format.