Hi Peter, thanks for doing this! My company currently employs a brilliant, in my opinion, Argentine scientist. We'd love to bring him to the US periodically, but he can't get a visa as he owns no property in Argentina, isn't married, etc. Short of meeting in a more neutral country do we have any options?
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#142Asking for a friend: Hi Peter, I was wondering, if I have an O visa, and I applied for EB-1 but get rejected, do I lose my O visa?
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#143Peter, Can you evaluate my specific case? I am going to send my resume and also my google scholar citation page. info: - I have about 46 citations. - Graduated last June 2015 PhD EE from a small US school. - 5+ conference papers in top conferences in my field. - 1 best paper award in a 250-paper conference. - 1 best paper nomination in 200+-paper conference. - 11+ conference/journal papers in Total. - 3 approved US p…
I'd be happy to evaluate your background.
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#144I'm an English programmer working in the UK for a site owned by, via another company, a very large privately owned US company. I have a child and a partner I am not married to. I have no criminal record. I'm unsettled by the brexit, and am considering a US move - if my company's parent wants to take me on how difficult is the immigration process likely to be?
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#145Hi Peter, Thank you so much for taking the time. My question is: As a recent grad from an American U, can OPT and OPT STEM extension be used to start a new company?
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#146Re: I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
#147Is there any reasonable explanation for not being "allowed" to leave the US, after filing for adjustment of status? Without advance parole, that is. Especially when a different class of visa (say an O1, while applying for EB1A) would still allow reentry? That can be rather annoying both for professional and personal reasons.
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#148Thanks for taking the time out to answer questions!
I am from India and am in US on H1B with gc process underway in EB2 category. I (along with a fellow friend) have been thinking of doing something on our own but are always discouraged by the immigration process. If we were to start something on our own, what are our options? H1b where you have a majority stake seems to not be an option. Is there an alternate way to do this?
I don't seem to satisfy requirements for O1.
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#149Re: I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
#150So what does extraordinary ability mean? Are we talking PhD level ability here, or Turning award level ability, or somewhere in between?
I can answer because I had an O1 visa, and from what I've understood the equivalent green card has roughly the same requirements. If I wanted to apply for a green card while on my O1 visa, I could have went to the same process (I chose to move back to Europe instead). Interestingly going from an O1 visa to the equivalent green cards doesn't require a corporate sponsorship. Basically if you have something like a Nobel…