Is actual *income generation* required for the UCSIS definition of "working"?

[domino66]

Is actual *income generation* required for the UCSIS definition of "working"?

I'm working on an internet start-up. As with most such start-ups, it generates NO income; it has no ads nor paying clients. I'm financing the entire thing with my savings. It's just a website that I hope will one day attract a lot of traffic and perhaps be valuable to a potential buyer (or perhaps i'll place ads on it and derive income that way.)

I'm going to stay with friends in the US for a couple months (as a "tourist", I guess). Can I "work" on my website while I'm there? I'm not deriving any income from it but, well, in this day and age a website can grown in value (sometimes to a very HIGH valuation) without generating actual income in the present. So I'm not "working" in the traditional sense via an income-generating activity, but it's important to me that I not violate my tourist status. Can I work on my website while in the US?What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)?

 

[Proserpina]

I'm working on an internet start-up. As with most such start-ups, it generates NO income; it has no ads nor paying clients. I'm financing the entire thing with my savings. It's just a website that I hope will one day attract a lot of traffic and perhaps be valuable to a potential buyer (or perhaps i'll place ads on it and derive income that way.)

I'm going to stay with friends in the US for a couple months (as a "tourist", I guess). Can I "work" on my website while I'm there? I'm not deriving any income from it but, well, in this day and age a website can grown in value (sometimes to a very HIGH valuation) without generating actual income in the present. So I'm not "working" in the traditional sense via an income-generating activity, but it's important to me that I not violate my tourist status. Can I work on my website while in the US?What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)?

Are you entering on the visa waiver program or a B visa?

There is a reason for my question.

 

[domino66]

I'm Canadian. So a B visa (but not one that needs to be approved in advance; I just go to the border and they let me in...which I'm told is technically a B visa).

 

[domino66]

Are you entering on the visa waiver program or a B visa?

There is a reason for my question.

So...what was the reason?