International structures · for founders who moved
We coordinate the entity, the banking and the tax fit for founders who live, invoice and operate across countries. We design it, we execute it, and we stay on to maintain it.
FOUNDERS IN 8 JURISDICTIONS → CHEYENNE, WY · 41.14°N → US BANKING
Two ways in
Why we exist
A basic LLC can be filed today on a self-serve platform for very little, and that is fine. The hard work starts the next morning: making the entity fit where you are tax resident, building a file a bank will actually clear, getting the filings in on time, and knowing whether it is still the right structure once you change country or client base.
A platform hands you an entity. We work out what should exist first, execute it, and then keep operating it.
How we work
Forming a company takes weeks. Keeping it in good standing takes years, and that is where most of the structures we inherit have already fallen over.
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Where you are tax resident, what the business actually does, where your clients are, how the money arrives, what you already have in place and what you plan to move. Out of that comes a specific architecture: a US LLC, another jurisdiction, a combination involving a change of residency, or leaving things exactly as they are for another year.
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Formation, EIN with its CP 575 letter, an operating agreement drafted for your setup, the bank file and the account opening itself. The US side we execute in-house; the UAE, Panama and Paraguay run through local firms with us coordinating the whole.
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Books, Form 5472 with its pro forma 1120, state renewal, registered agent and a dated compliance calendar. Plus the incidents: a bank requesting documents, an enterprise client opening due diligence, a move that changes where the structure fits.
The structure, from the inside
A structure is not a filing receipt: it is five pieces that depend on each other. The entity rests on the EIN, the EIN carries the bank account, and the whole thing rests on your tax residency. If that base is unresolved, what sits above it collapses at the first serious bank or the first enquiry from home. That is why residency gets decided before the entity, not after.
Jurisdictions
The jurisdiction is what the assessment concludes, not what we set out to sell you. What changes from one to the next is what it takes to maintain, how a bank reads it, and what it means where you are tax resident.
LLC · WYOMING, NEW MEXICO, DELAWARE
When the business needs American infrastructure: getting paid in dollars, US banking and payment rails, and clients who would rather invoice a US entity. The most standardised route, and the one we execute end to end ourselves.
GO →FREE ZONE · ENTITY AND RESIDENCY TOGETHER
When the entity and the move of residency are part of the same decision. It demands real substance, a high annual cost to maintain and actual presence: it is not a paperwork exercise done from the sofa.
GO →TERRITORIAL · REGIONAL OPERATIONS
When territoriality, local operations and residency line up in the same case. Worth knowing before you start: Panama remains on Annex I of the EU list, which changes how your bank and your home tax authority read it.
GO →LATAM BASE · ACCESSIBLE RESIDENCY
When a Latin American base and the residency that comes with it are part of the architecture. Personal income tax is territorial, but the corporate regime does reach dividends from foreign entities: that detail decides whether the setup makes sense.
GO →Not sure which one your case calls for? The framework for comparing all six →
Company and residency
A Wyoming LLC is taxed differently depending on where you are tax resident, and a single move can turn the right structure into the wrong one. That is why the assessment looks at both together: which entity makes sense, and what happens to it if you relocate.
We design and execute the corporate side. The immigration side (visas, registration, certificates of tax residency) is executed by a specialist in the destination country; what the assessment gives you is which one you need and in what order the steps go.
How the residency side works: tax residency, without the 0% promises →
In practice
Three concrete differences between buying an entity and commissioning a structure.
What decides what gets built
What you receive
What happens the year after
| Incorporation platform | Cheq Capital | |
|---|---|---|
| What decides what gets built | Whatever you select at checkout. | Your tax residency, your clients and how you get paid. |
| What you receive | The entity you asked for. | The entity, the EIN, the operating agreement and the bank file submitted. |
| What happens the year after | Renewal reminders. | Books, Form 5472, renewals and whatever incidents come up. |
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How it runs
What you do at each point, what we do, and how long it takes.
Eleven questions and a verdict on screen, at no cost
The whole case on the table and the architecture we recommend
Entity, EIN, documents and the bank file submitted
Books, filings, renewals and incidents, every month
REAL OPERATING TIMES · STATE BACKLOGS CAN ADD DAYS
What execution means
Sooner or later someone looks closely: a bank's compliance team, an enterprise client's legal desk, your own accountant. The documents are not the product: they are the evidence the work was done, which is why they are drafted to pass that review rather than merely to exist. These are the ones a US LLC ships with; every jurisdiction has its own.
Start here
Eleven questions about your residency, your business, your clients and how you get paid. Immediate read on screen: which structure fits, which does not, and what the next step is. If changing nothing is the right call for now, we will say that too.
When the case warrants it, the next step is a diagnostic session. It is not a sales call: your case gets reviewed and you leave with a recommended architecture. It is paid, and the fee is credited in full against the work if we go on to execute it together.
NO-COST ASSESSMENT · NO SIGN-UP REQUIRED · EN / ES
Frequently asked
No. The US LLC is the most travelled path because it is the most flexible tool for founders invoicing outside the country they live in, which is why it is the most developed part of this site. But we also work with structures in the UAE, Panama and Paraguay, and with the tax-residency side of the same decision. The framework for choosing between them is in where to set up your company.
That is the work. Start with the structure assessment: eleven questions about your residency, your activity, your budget and your clients, with an immediate answer: a US LLC fits, something else fits, or nothing fits yet. If the case warrants it, the next step is a diagnostic call, which is paid and credited in full against the work if we go ahead together.
Yes. US law lets foreign nationals form LLCs with no citizenship, residency, visa or SSN. Formation, EIN and account opening are all remote. You never set foot in the United States. The full process is in how to form a US LLC as a non-resident.
On its own, no, and anyone telling you otherwise is selling you a future problem. A single-member LLC is a pass-through: the IRS looks through it to you, and you are taxed where you are tax resident. If you already live in a territorial or zero-income-tax jurisdiction, the combination works well. If you are still fully resident in a worldwide-taxation country, the LLC is operational infrastructure, not a tax strategy. See US tax for non-resident LLC owners.
No, and neither can anyone else: the decision is always the bank’s. What we stand behind is our work: we know what each institution reviews, we build the file to match, we walk you through the application, and if one bank declines we go again at the right one. That is the difference between a link to a marketplace and an actual protocol. Details in US business banking for non-residents.
Yes. We change the registered agent, audit what was filed (and what was not), fix the operating agreement if it is a template with your name on it, and bring the compliance calendar up to date. Most of the structures we inherit have at least one gap that would surface at the worst possible moment. See switch your LLC to Cheq.
The long part starts, and it is the part that takes most structures down. Every year there are books to reconcile, Form 5472 with its pro forma 1120, the state renewal and the registered agent; in between, the incidents: a bank requesting documents, an enterprise client opening due diligence, a move that changes where the structure fits. That is the maintenance layer, and it runs on its own calendar. What it covers, in US LLC compliance.
It means the assessment happens before the sale, the documents are drafted for your specific setup rather than generated from a template, and the person who answers your message is the person who designed the structure. It also means we will decline work that does not fit, which is the part a checkout page cannot copy.