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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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nafizh wrote: post #66

Hi Peter, thanks for doing this. What would be the best visa for a PhD holder (got PhD from a US institution) living in US who wants to start a startup? The person is currently in H-1B with an employer and his green card under EB2-NIW is under process.

Either the O-1 or the IEPP (or an E-2 if he or she is from a country with a treaty of commerce and trade with the US). Also, an H-1B could work but really only where there are other founders such that this person's ownership interest would be less than 50% and no higher than any other founder/owner.

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

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mshrwed wrote: post #65

Hey Peter, Thank you so much for doing this. Much love ♥ From your understanding, do you think it would be possible for an international student in the U.S. on a F1 visa to apply for IEP and work on their start-up while doing school? Thanks.

There is no prohibition on attending school while on an IEP but the individual's primary activity would need to in connection with the business, not the school.

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

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Post by j1_h1b »

wizzwizz4 wrote: post #69
j1_h1b wrote: post #60

Hello Peter, thanks for doing this. Supposed someone has been on a J1 visa for last couple of years and had changed it from student scholar to research scholar (moving the 2 year timeline to 5 year timeline). In the midst of pandemic he/she had to move back to India to care for my parents and got my J1 expired. Now can they go back to US on a J1 visa, is it possible ? Can they apply for H1b non exempt positions (thos…

> Please remember that I can't provide legal advice on specific cases for obvious liability reasons because I won’t have access to all the facts. See above. Perhaps edit your question to make it about the general laws?

Thanks Peter, here is a more generalized question. What would be the best course of action for somebody to get back on a J1 visa since its expired yet legally from what I understand since its on a 5 year cycle (research scholar).

Also if not how can they get a working visa in US ?

I also updated the above question to reflect the general gist of a situation that I would be grateful to receive some help for.

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

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Post by proberts »

WrtCdEvrydy wrote: post #3

I saw your AMA in Reddit years ago, what can the software engineering divisions do to help you? I had a friend who realized that the lawyers didn't really have tooling that was perfectly sized.

Lawyers - myself included - are notoriously bad at using technology and just changing the way that they do things so there's no question that there's opportunity here.

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Post by onalucreh »

hi Peter. I'm a Brazilian junior cloud architect that's on his early career and would like to in the near future(~8 to 12 months) work on startups in other countries like Canada and Netherlands. how should proceed to be fully prepared for that kind of work and migration?

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

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Post by proberts »

parentheses wrote: post #21

(Separate question so another comment) Peter, thanks for doing this! What are your thoughts about what computing can do to positively affect the practice and integration of law into individuals and companies? I know the legal space has always been a tough nut for software to crack. What is your opinion on why this is? These are very general questions and I appreciate anything you can do to help me understand this spa…

Lawyers - myself included - are generally technically challenged and averse to change. Whatever the technology is, for lawyers to adopt it, I think it must be incredibly easy to install and use and must show positive results clearly and immediately.

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onalucreh wrote: post #76

hi Peter. I'm a Brazilian junior cloud architect that's on his early career and would like to in the near future(~8 to 12 months) work on startups in other countries like Canada and Netherlands. how should proceed to be fully prepared for that kind of work and migration?

I can't comment on the Netherlands but for the US, just continue to do great work and continue to develop your skills and whenever possible participate in things public, that is, present/speak at conferences and other events, participate in or serve as a judge at hackathons and other competitions (such as Kaggle for example), write articles, and participate in open source communities and initiatives.
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