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If someone with the F-1(student) or the F-2(Student's dependent) visa is in the US. how can he establish a company in the US?

Can he do it standalone(I mean register a company with his own with no more guys in the company) or he must hire another person as the new company's CEO or other staffs?

Also I like to know should he pay a minimum specified wage to the nec company's CEO or he can just ask a friend to use his name and don't pay him at all?

GoodMan
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You can start the company. The problem is that the moment you take any action to work for the company that you've started you're almost certainly going to violate the terms of your visa.

F-2 visa holders aren't allowed to work at all. F-1 visa holders are allowed to work during the term at most 20 hours a week at an on campus job after their first year of study. It is highly unlikely that a company you found would be considered such an on campus job. The purpose of the rules is to ensure that the visa holders are actually here to study not to work and that they're devoting their energies to their studies not to building a start up. If you want to actually work for the company you're starting, you'd need to adjust your visa status (i.e. to H-1B). Or you'd need to complete your studies, return home, and start the US based company remotely.

Justin Cave
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Anyone in the world can start a US company, as long as their country isn't on the "US government hates us" list.

Stripe's Atlas product is specifically intended for non-US founders.

Your visa questions are off-topic for Personal Finance.