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    Default Can an Undocumented Immigrant Start a Business

    Hi,

    Someone I know is an undocumented immigrant, and would like to start a business. He would like to register a sole proprietorship, and eventually an LLC.

    He has a TIN number of his own, an EIN number acquired from the IRS website, a valid passport, and a valid college ID which does not serve as a legal form of ID.

    Can he register as a sole proprietor?

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    Default Re: Can an Undocumented Immigrant Start a Business

    a passport from where?

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    Default Re: Can an Undocumented Immigrant Start a Business

    I recommend that his business be hunting down illegals & have his first job be himself.

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    Default Re: Can an Undocumented Immigrant Start a Business

    Quote Quoting Invictus
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    Hi,

    Someone I know is an undocumented immigrant, and would like to start a business. He would like to register a sole proprietorship, and eventually an LLC.

    He has a TIN number of his own, an EIN number acquired from the IRS website, a valid passport, and a valid college ID which does not serve as a legal form of ID.

    Can he register as a sole proprietor?
    It is not necessary to register a sole proprietorship. Therefore he can start his business without doing so. It is also not illegal for an undocumented immigrant to have a business in the US.

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    Default Re: Can an Undocumented Immigrant Start a Business

    It is not necessary to register a sole proprietorship.
    Depends where you are and what the business is. It might quite well be required.
    Further, if the business operates under something other than the proprietor's legal name, the use of the fictitious name will probably need to be registerd.

    It's most likely ILLEGAL for him to work in the US in any sort of business, but since he's here illegaly anyhow...

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    Default Re: Can an Undocumented Immigrant Start a Business

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    It is also not illegal for an undocumented immigrant to have a business in the US.
    It may not be illegal for an "undocumented" immigrant to have a business in the US but it is illegal for an "undocumented" immigrant to be in the US and to earn an income in the US. If you can own the business and not derive an income from it, then the business itself might be a possibility. Seems like kind of a useless endeavor to me though.

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