(1) An alien company may use Illinois as a state of entry to transact insurance in the United States by obtaining a certificate of authority pursuant to Section 111 and maintaining in this State a deposit of assets in trust in accordance with the provisions of Section 60b.
     (2) A United States branch of an alien company that uses Illinois as a state of entry to transact insurance in the United States shall be considered a domestic company, and as such shall be subject to all applicable provisions of this Code. Transactions between the United States branch and the home office of an alien company shall not be subject to the provisions of Section 131.20 and subsection (1) of Section 131.20a, but remittances of profits of the United States branch to the home office of an alien company shall be considered dividends subject to the requirements of subsection (2) of Section 131.20a.