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Nationals of Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, or Yemen that do not currently hold dual nationality with another country, an existing visa, or another document permitting entry. No hysteria there.
Are there any stats on how many prior YC founders were from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, or Yemen?
I like how HN will change any clickbait titles you post but regularly does clickbait titles of its own. This entire article could, and should, be a single sentence title. "YCombinator holding Canada interviews for founders without US Visa".
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A brief search turned up one from Sudan. I don't know where to find a comprehensive list. Don't forget to include non-Americans with dual citizenship. Someone "from" a totally unrelated country might still have citizenship in one of the banned countries and would not be allowed in. See Mo Farah as a prominent example. I imagine the main concern here is uncertainty, though. The original travel ban was introduced with…
Which countries do people suspect might be banned? I don't really expect any more than already have been.
And beyond that, who knows? When insane people are in power, anything is possible. Maybe some big attack is carried out by a radicalized Muslim from France or Sweden, and the response is to ban entries from there. I'd have called this idea absurd not too long ago, but now I consider this kind of thing a serious, if small, possibility.
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> Look at the visa policy for unmarried women under 30 for Dubai With little googling you can find a reason behind this. Dubai escorts is huge.
That reasoning could be used to justify a lot of things. (I know you may be stating their reasoning and not I am not saying you are endorsing that)
Who is having trouble getting a Visa exactly? Just curious, trying to separate fact from hysteria
[1]: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/canadian-woman-turned... [2]: https://news.vice.com/story/another-canadian-of-moroccan-des...
P.S: CBP officers have a difficult job so the decentralised decision-making is understandable to a certain degree
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Inflammatory drive-bys are trolling. If you have a substantive point, make it thoughtfully; if you don't, please don't post. We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13830706 and marked it off-topic.
What else is there to say? It's the Middle East. Can women even start businesses there? What if you're gay? Will they behead the CEO of a Y Combinator-backed startup if he/she is ousted as gay or an atheist? Will the founder have to have a male escort to board meetings?
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Which countries do people suspect might be banned? I don't really expect any more than already have been.
Given that this was the administration's attempt to implement a ban on Muslims entering the country, I'd expect it to be expanded to more predominantly Muslim countries if the courts don't completely smack it down and the administration survives long enough. And beyond that, who knows? When insane people are in power, anything is possible. Maybe some big attack is carried out by a radicalized Muslim from France or Sw…
This is an inflammatory comment, and not a given.
> When insane people are in power, anything is possible
Also inflammatory.
>Maybe some big attack is carried out by a radicalized Muslim from France or Sweden, and the response is to ban entries from there. I'd have called this idea absurd not too long ago, but now I consider this kind of thing a serious, if small, possibility.
This is plausible, and a good point.
Sorry to spend most of my comment criticizing your comment but I really cant stand this kind of rhetoric.
May be this is a dumb question, I will ask it anyway, Tijuana Mexico is about 500 miles from Bay Area, where as Vancouver Canada is 1000 miles. Que Canada?
In light of recent events [0], there's a non-zero chance that some founders out there would rather avoid going to the US at all - if only to protest with their wallet. It might be more sensible to open a second incubator in the EU. Berlin, Amsterdam, Dublin, Barcelona, there are plenty of options. (London is a good choice on paper too but pray tell what'll happen after Brexit.) [0]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/new…
Silicon Valley happened before the tax madness, and there is now net wealth outflow to lower-tax locations.