Firstly I am new member to this discussion group.

I have joined following a return from a year in the USA, returned that is at the advise of both legal and financial advisor's.

America has a reputation as a fertile ground for entrepreneurs, and the land of the free.

Well I would like to raise an awareness of those of us that have an experience which seems to advocate illegal immigration.

As a CEO of a manufacturing company setting up in the US we found ourselves only being allocated a 12 month visa. We then discovered after working in the US our visa would expire, but we would become tax resident. Taxed on all worldly income (which would have been 5 figures of tax)

So you become tax resident by default, but non resident due to no working visa ????????????