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I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

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Re: I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

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For founders and key technical talent outside the U.S. who did not finish their undergraduate degrees, are they in-effect disqualified from H1B and must go the route of an O visa?

Given technical people aren't celebrities or sports figures, beyond conference proceedings, what were the kinds of evidence these kind of applicants presented in support of an O - or another type of visa?

Re: I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

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This isn't an immigration issue per se but we (early stage startup) were thinking of hiring an employee who will remain in their home country (Colombia) and work remotely until COVID concerns are far in the rearview. Do you know of any companies that we can use as a proxy or intermediary so we don't have to go through all the legal hoops ourselves? After some super quick research we found lano.io but would love some…

Supreme Outsourcing should be able to help. http://supremeoutsourcing.com

Louis Lautman is best contact over there for help. louis (at) supremeoutsourcing (dot) com

Re: I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

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I'm sure you saw the article recently about the H1B visa program requiring significantly higher pay for visa holders. How do you think this will affect current visa holders? Obviously it varies case by case but I'm hoping you'll have insight into this that I don't have. https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-administration-announces-...

The higher prevailing wages don't impact the present wages of those currently in H-1B status; they will only apply to extensions and new filings.

Re: I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

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I got a birth affidavit from my parents because my parent's name was abbreviated in the birth certificate. This affidavit does not have parent's date of birth. Is that going to be an issue?

Where were you born?

Re: I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

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A bit of a basic question but, if an individual working in the US on an H1B Visa decides to marry a US Citizen, how will it affect their job status? Will they have to quit their job, go back to their country of origin and return to the US on a Marriage/Fiance visa once that process is approved?

I did this. I was on H1B and wife is American. For starters, you don't have to leave the country for anything. You and your wife will apply for Green card and Change of status. But this is after marriage.
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