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Immigration business plans, written to USCIS standards

Reviewed by Muhammad Tayyab Shabbir · Last updated 4 September 2026

An immigration business plan is a standalone document your attorney files as evidence with an E-2, L-1, EB-5 or EB-2 NIW petition. It is for founders and investors moving a business to the United States, and it covers the venture, the investment, the hiring schedule and five years of financials. Fixed price: Essential $1,900, Standard $2,400, Premium $3,200. Turnaround 7 to 14 days. It starts with a free 30-minute call.

We write E-2, EB-5, L-1 and EB-2 NIW plans to each authority's exact criteria, so your application reads as approvable. Filing under E-2? There is a dedicated page for it: E-2 visa business plans.

We are business plan writers, not attorneys. Business Plan Firm is not a law firm, gives no legal or immigration advice, assesses no one's eligibility and files nothing with USCIS or a consulate. Your attorney owns the legal strategy. We build the business and financial evidence that sits underneath it.

E-2 · EB-5 · L-1
Visa-grade
Attorney-ready
On your timeline
RFE revisions
Free
$1,900+
Fixed price
What you get

What is in an immigration business plan?

One document, written as evidence rather than as a sales pitch, and read alongside the rest of your petition. 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.

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.

From $1,900 / £1,500
Fixed quote on your call, by visa type and complexity.
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Packages

How much does an immigration business plan cost?

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. In the engagements we run, EB-2 NIW and EB-5 direct filings take more depth on job creation and on where the money came from: Standard. Regional center work, multiple entities and filings that need economic impact modeling: Premium. 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.

Essential
$1,900
An E-2 or L-1 plan written to the adjudicator's criteria.
  • Visa-specific plan to USCIS criteria
  • Job-creation and investment detail
  • 5-year financials
  • Free RFE-directed revision
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Standard
$2,400
Most petitioners. Added depth for EB-5 and EB-2 NIW.
  • Everything in Essential
  • EB-5 or EB-2 NIW depth
  • Source-of-funds narrative support
  • Attorney coordination
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Premium
$3,200
Regional center and complex, larger filings.
  • Everything in Standard
  • Economic impact (job) modeling
  • Priority filing-timeline turnaround
  • Senior consultant lead
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Every package is a fixed price agreed on your call. Not sure which fits? We will tell you straight. UK clients add VAT.

Most petitioners buy the plan on its own. 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 rather than building the same work twice.

Before we start

What do you need from me before you start?

Less than most petitioners 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.

Your attorney's brief

The visa category, the criteria they want addressed, the filing date, and how the plan should sit alongside the rest of the petition.

The investment

How much is going in, what it is being spent on, where it came from, and what has already been transferred, spent or committed.

The business itself

Premises or a shortlist, lease or letter of intent, equipment and fit-out quotes, licenses, suppliers, and trading history if the entity exists.

The people

Every role you plan to hire, the wage and the month it starts. For L-1, the parent company structure and your role inside 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; read when a feasibility study is actually required before you commission one.

How it works

How does the process work?

Day 0

Strategy call

30 minutes with a senior consultant. Scope, requirements and a fixed quote on the call.

Days 1 to 5

Research & model

Cited market research and a five-year financial model built from your numbers.

Days 5 to 7

First draft

Full document drafted and designed in-house, reviewed line by line before you see it.

Days 7 to 10

Revisions to yes

Revisions until your reader says yes (one round on Essential, unlimited on Standard and Premium).

Revisions

How do revisions and RFEs work?

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 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.

Failure modes

What makes an immigration business plan weak?

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, on the files we have worked on.

Numbers that do not tie

Payroll in the financials that does not match the staffing schedule, or a use-of-funds total that does not match the investment being claimed.

Jobs with nothing under them

A headcount asserted in the narrative with no roles, wages or start months behind it, and no revenue that would support paying them.

An investor pitch in disguise

Vision language, hockey-stick curves and a billion-dollar market, in a document that is being read as evidence rather than as a sales case.

Sources that do not exist

Market claims with no citation, or figures lifted from a template written for a different country, industry or year.

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

Straight answers

When is a visa business plan the wrong thing to buy?

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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
FAQ

Questions founders ask.

Which visas do you write plans for?

E-2 treaty investor, L-1 intracompany transfer, EB-5 (direct and regional center) and EB-2 NIW. The document is written to the criteria of the category your attorney has already chosen. We do not select the category and we do not advise on eligibility, because that is legal advice and we are not a law firm.

Are you immigration attorneys?

No. Business Plan Firm is a business planning consultancy, the US practice of Avvale, a London firm. We are not a law firm, we give no legal or immigration advice, we assess no one's eligibility, and we file nothing with USCIS or a consulate. We write the business and financial evidence your attorney submits with the petition.

How much does an immigration business plan cost?

Three fixed prices, agreed on the call before any work begins: Essential $1,900, Standard $2,400 and Premium $3,200. The category and its evidentiary load set the tier, not the page count. Government filing fees, attorney fees and the investment itself are not included, and we never charge a success fee or a percentage of a raise.

How long does a visa plan take?

Typically 7 to 14 days from the call, depending on the visa category and how much of your own information is ready when we start. Premium includes priority turnaround on a filing timeline. Tell us the filing date on the call: if it is not achievable, we will say so then rather than agree and miss it.

What happens if we get an RFE?

RFE-directed revisions are free. We address exactly what the officer asked for, in the language the notice uses, rather than padding the document. Send us the notice and its deadline the day you receive it. A change to the underlying business, such as a new location, a different investment amount or a new entity, is new work and we quote it separately.

Do you work with my immigration attorney?

Yes, and we prefer it. We take the visa category, the criteria to address and the filing date from your attorney, send drafts to you both together, and revise against their markup. If you have not retained one 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.

Can you guarantee my visa will be approved?

No, and no consultant honestly can. 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: written to the criteria of your category, internally consistent, sourced, and revised free of charge if a Request for Evidence touches it.

Muhammad Tayyab Shabbir, Founder of Avvale

Written and reviewed 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. We are not attorneys and give no legal or immigration advice.

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