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My family and I are visiting the U.S. for vacation, but we also have meetings with an immigration attorney and a business owner to explore a possible FUTURE E-2 business. We won’t be working or running a business on this trip.
If you’ve been in a similar situation, what did CBP ask you at the airport? Did you mention the business meetings? Any tips?
We have European passports but were born in Iran, so we’re also wondering if that led to any extra questions.

After several meetings and discussions regarding the purchase of a business in the state where we wanted to proceed, everything seemed fine from day one. They repeatedly assured us that it was absolutely possible to complete the process in that state and that there would be no issues.

Even until the very last stage, when we informed them that we were ready to move forward and start working with them, they appeared to agree with everything. Our only condition before purchasing the business and obtaining the visa was that the funds be placed in an escrow account. This way, if the visa was approved, the money would be released to them, and if the visa was denied, the money would be returned to us.

They agreed to this as well and even scheduled another meeting for the following week to continue the process. However, before that meeting took place, they sent us a very short, cold, and unfriendly email stating that they do not operate in the state where we intended to proceed.

It was quite clear that they were uncomfortable with the escrow account arrangement and preferred to tell us what we wanted to hear rather than be transparent from the beginning.

Please be aware and careful of this people!!!!