Federal Government Launches Website for Latino, Foreign Business Entrepreneurs Designed to Provide Help with Immigration Process

For Latino and foreign businessmen, working towards the American Dream may get a little easier, thanks to a new tool found in cyberspace.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services this week launched a website at the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship in Cambridge, Massachusetts that aims to ease the immigration process for entrepreneurs.

The website was part of an initiative announced by federal immigration services in October designated to provide tools for employment-based and high-skilled immigrants to make a living in the U.S. and contribute to the U.S. economy.

The initiative was part of a wider effort by the White House and the federal Department of Homeland Security to grow the U.S. economy and create more jobs in the U.S.

As ABC News Univision reports, the site--described to them by a USCIS spokesperson as a "one-stop shop" where would-be immigrant entrepreneurs can learn about the application process and what documents are required--would not alter immigration procedure in any way.

Instead, it aims to "close the information gap between USCIS and the entrepreneurial community," as the USCIS website reads.

The site was created with the collaboration and work between entrepreneurs and numerous immigration officials, including immigration services Director Alejandro Mayorkas.

The site will feature a Getting Started tool, which gives such skilled worker and foreign entrepreneurs a "high level" overview of the immigration process. In addition, the pathways pays contains a visa guide for entrepreneurs to introduce them to nonimmigrant visa categories they are most likely to use.

"Through our innovative Entrepreneurs in Residence initiative, we are working to realize our current immigration system's full potential to attract and retain startup enterprises that promote innovation and spur job creation in America," Mayorkas said in a statement.

Paul Ford, vice president of strategic and community development and chief ecosystem builder at SoftLayer Technologies in Texas, told ABC News Univision that companies are struggling to find qualified employees and the new initiative by immigration services could help businesses such as tech companies with getting high-level talents into their business.

"There are so many entrepreneurs that want to be part of the ecosystem," he said.

Ford decided to participate after he spoke with a venture capitalist friend about the "pain" both foreign startup entrepreneurs and tech companies experience attempting to navigate the immigration process.