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I am actually curious if you see any indication of people leaving/emigrating from the USA? Either serial entrepreneurs who have already had some success or those who feel there are sufficient opportunities with less hassle elsewhere.
Preamble: As I understand it, it is permissible for a European who works for a US company to visit the US as a "business visitor" on an ESTA in order to visit the company, as long as the visit is not for "work". Various sources list activities that are deemed to be "business" and not "work", such as attending business meetings or attending a trade show, and entering on an ESTA for these purposes is thus acceptable. Q…
(Full disclosure, my mom is an immigrant, moving to the US obviously made sense at the time.)
Getting a visa and staying on it can be emotionally difficult situation, do you know if there are therapists who specialize in helping with this area?
This is incredibly helpful and generous of you. This is completely not specific to tech, but I have a friend who emigrated from Congo very young. As a young adult, he committed a felony. He served his time and was released last year. ICE did not pick him up from the prison, so he went home with his parents. He has a ruling date from an immigration judge this summer. He recently turned himself in to ICE after discover…
Do publications to my BigCo employer's engineering blog count towards an O-1 application? Or is it just Research Papers/citations to formal journals that matter? What are some other common ways to build a portfolio towards an O-1 application other than research citations or founding a startup? Thanks for this AMA!
This may sound troll post, but i assure you its not, I'm genuinely curious. Can someone currently in USA on h1b or F1 but didn't get selected into lottery go to Mexico, enter USA illegally like many others these days. Register himself/herself and get some sort of work authorization and start working in tech?
How transferable the open source experience from major projects (like being a core developer of the python language itself) in terms of O1 to provide the criteria of "reviewing other's work"?
The impression I get from most countries visa options is that they're happy for people like me to come in for a few years, work, pay tax, and leave. I'm surprised that even on a temporary basis this kind of activity seems impossible in the US (unless you are quite specifically a student). I'm also aware that the US system is very complex, so are you aware of any visas that I should be looking at in the US which I just might not be able to find?