A contractor-supported model must satisfy the same real-enterprise, investment, direction and non-marginality requirements. Outsourcing does not automatically establish or defeat eligibility; the actual operating arrangement matters.
Explain the investor’s enterprise
Show what the U.S. business sells, how providers deliver it and which decisions remain with the investor. A passive arrangement managed entirely by others raises a different issue from active direction supported by outside services.
Do not invent employee positions merely to make the file look conventional. Review worker classification and other business obligations separately from the immigration analysis. Apply the substitution test before deciding whether the model needs specialist advice.
List the decisions made in a typical month, then ask which the investor made, which a provider made, and which nobody made because they follow a standing arrangement someone else designed. Those proportions answer the question more reliably than an organisational description. Whichever way those proportions fall, the conditions are unchanged: treaty nationality, capital irrevocably committed and genuinely at risk, an enterprise that is real, operating and not marginal, and an investor who develops and directs it through ownership of at least half or demonstrated operational control.
Ask who holds signing authority over the bank accounts, the provider contracts and the pricing, because those powers are what a reviewer tests when delivery is outsourced. Licensing, worker classification and tax obligations attaching to the providers belong to the appropriate advisers and are not resolved by the immigration analysis.