E-2 visa business plans, written to the treaty investor criteria

One document, written as evidence rather than as a sales pitch, and read alongside the rest of your file. Ours contain an executive summary that states the 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.

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: UCL, published textbook author, and founder of Avvale, the London consultancy whose US practice is Business Plan Firm. Our team has produced $1B+ in funding documents for 500+ businesses across 30+ countries, including Shark Tank and Dragons' Den clients. What each of those figures counts. Plans are drafted in-house and reviewed line by line before you or your attorney see them.

We are not attorneys and none of this is legal advice: eligibility is your attorney's question, not ours. We set the tests out because they are what the document has to speak to. The wording below is what USCIS publishes on its own E-2 treaty investor page, checked on 4 September 2026.

USCIS also states the investor must be seeking to enter the United States solely to develop and direct the investment enterprise. Which of these your file is weakest on is a legal judgment, and your attorney makes it. What we do is make sure the document answers each one with something checkable rather than with an adjective.

The investment. No document decides whether an amount is substantial; the officer does, and your attorney advises on it. What the plan does is make the investment legible. Every dollar appears twice: once in the source narrative, where it came from and when it moved, and once in the use of funds, what it bought. Both tie to the appendix: the lease, the equipment quotes, the invoices, the transfer records, the franchise agreement. Where money is committed but not yet spent, the plan says so and shows the commitment rather than rounding it into a total. On the files we have worked on, the investment section that causes trouble is not the small one, it is the one whose parts do not add up to the figure claimed on the front page.

Marginality. The test turns on present or future capacity, so the plan has to show capacity rather than assert it. That means a staffing schedule naming every role, its wage and the month it starts, and five years of profit and loss, cash flow and balance sheet in which the payroll line equals that schedule, month for month. Revenue is built from a volume and a price the business can actually serve, with the sources behind the volume. Five years is the horizon we build to on every immigration plan. Your attorney will tell you how far the capacity argument has to reach in your case.

A real and operating enterprise. Premises, licensing, suppliers, equipment and the month-by-month timeline to opening, plus whatever is already trading. This is the section founders under-write and the one that is easiest to evidence, because most of it exists as documents you already hold.

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 filing, not the page count. In the engagements we run, a single-owner E-2 sits in Essential. The tiers below are the same three we sell on every immigration plan. The fee covers the plan and its financials only: filing fees, attorney fees and the investment itself are separate, and we charge no success fee or percentage of anything. Every tier we sell is listed in one place: see every price we charge.

Filing under a different category, or not sure which yet? The umbrella page covers E-2 alongside L-1, EB-5 and EB-2 NIW: immigration business plans. If you also need the numbers as a standalone deliverable, or the market evidence built out further than the filing requires, say so on the call: we quote the financial model or market research with it as one fixed price rather than building the same work twice.

Less than most investors expect, and none of it privileged: 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 rather than quietly inventing one.

If the venture itself is still unproven, site not chosen, model not tested, capital not yet committed, a plan written to a 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 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 actually asked for, in the language the notice uses, rather than padding the document to look busy. 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, and we will say so and quote it rather than quietly rebuilding.

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.

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 on the files we have worked on, a plan commissioned before the attorney is in place usually has to be rewritten.
• What you actually want is "do I qualify?" That is a legal question, and only an immigration attorney can answer it. A consultant who tells you that you qualify is not doing you a favor.
• Your attorney has chosen a different category. Then you want the document written to that category instead: L-1, EB-5 and EB-2 NIW plans are the same service, written to different criteria.
• 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 want a guaranteed outcome. Nobody can sell you one. We will not pretend otherwise to win the work.