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And for anyone interested in the topic, the article is already out of date, as entrepreneurial parole is currently blocked due to a regulatory freeze: http://www.politico.com/story…

University makes the call. If you're pre-funded, you'll work as a part-time mentor, 8-10 hours a week; post-funded, 100% of your time for your startup which has to move on/near cam…

Depends on the person and their academic backgrounds. The positions are specifically designed so that the students can benefit from that person's specific expertise and experience.…

You're thinking of the EB-5 green card perhaps

We're doing strict self-policing so that this isn't the case. While founders are getting their startups off the ground, they're working 8-10 hours a week as mentors at the center f…

You can meet the requirements in the country on the B-1 business tourist visa, visa waiver, or OPT status as an F-1 holder, but to activate parole, you need to do so outside the co…

That's correct. Not the best branding, but I'm sure the White House did what it could.

I'm Craig, quoted in the article as the executive director of the Global EIR Coalition, which is what Nigel is using and is soon to be in the Bay Area as a visa option. Happy to an…

He's on Global EIR's legal advisory board, so I'm happy to connect you. I'm at Craig at globaleir org

Concur. Chris Wright down in LA is superb at O-1s, has worked with a lot of founders with positive conclusions. I recommend him highly.

Yep, Craig here with Global EIR. As the other commenter says, research universities use cap exempt H-1Bs for their full-time faculty and also lab technical staff. Now that all of t…

Two year mandatory return for many origin countries can make J-1 messy. Also, J-1 being run by State rather than DHS/USCIS introduces some extra weird things.

Yeah, take a look at the USCIS Visa Guide: http://www.uscis.gov/eir/visa-guide/ There are lots of different options and none are all that good a fit for founders. If you've got a y…

If you want to be a founder, consider this state level program: http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2015/03/30/cu-boulder-... Various states who have launched or are considering …

More time for Scrabble, hopefully? ;)

Yep! I came up with that one, at least /grin You start running into various complexity problems with further counter hacks of course :) but institutional investors as LPs with esta…

It seems extremely likely that the H-4 spouse EAD (work authorization) change has just been enacted: http://www.regulations.gov/#!documentDetail;D=USCIS-2010-001... It was proposed…

Strong suggestions. Re: the one I know the most about, "removing the tie between the sponsoring company and the employee (so if he or she is underpaid he or she can easily switch j…

It'd be nice. But likely unfeasible politically either from a legislative or regulatory perspective. There are many problems using the H-1B even at a policy level: -Lottery/applica…

That is the exact argument against the H-1B re: "highly skilled" requirement. Code monkeys (as distinct from devs) are a very different fish, but DC doesn't know the difference The…

Right on. The proposal had to be set up to prevent such obvious abuse. One thought was admissions rates, since folks seemed impressed by the soundbite that "YC had a lower admissio…