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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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Post by Eumenes »

tombert wrote: post #337
Eumenes wrote: post #335

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Smartphones/laptops/hardware is slightly different because its manufactured/assembled overseas. The dairy industry is domestically based and acting like its workers are based in the 3rd world. Threatening the population with higher prices if they can't continue to break the law is extortion and it needs to be treated as such. If you can't run a legit business with legal labor, you need to be shut down. Someone else w…

I don't really disagree, I'm against exploitative labor, and I agree that if you can't do things legally you probably shouldn't be in business, especially in an extremely rich country like the US. [1] I'm arguing that most people are hypocrites on this, and the last two years have proven that they'll blame the current president if their food prices go up. I'm not claiming that this is accurate, I'm claiming that that…

Agreed, politics is a team sport and someone is going to get the blame on grocery costs or gas prices. Its really the medias fault because people don't have the interest/time/intellect to dig into these issues - its all on headlines/clickbait. Illegal labor practices in farming/dairy/meat processing have been going on forever but they only seem to be front and center every 4 years, or < 3 weeks out from a national election cycle.

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

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Post by Bobaso »

proberts wrote: post #229
Bobaso wrote: post #190

Hi, I'm European, working in Europe My wife has a J1 visa To apply for a J2 visa, I need be present and stay in USA for all the duration of the application? no way to come back to Europe in the meantime? How long would the processing take?

The best solution is just to apply for a J-2 visa at a U.S. Consulate rather than applying for J-2 change of status in the U.S. and then once you reenter the U.S. on your J-2 visa you can apply for a work card and travel while your work card application is pending without impacting this application.

thanks!

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

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Post by slashdev »

gorbypark wrote: post #300

Theoretical situation: I'm Canadian, I don't have a degree at all. If I found a startup that is incorporated in the US, but I'm still in Canada and most employees are outside of the US (although not exclusively), is there a "level of success" at which I might be considered for some sort of residency visa in the US? Suppose I wanted to, for example, open a physical office in the US for the already formed startup.

As someone in the same theoretical position, I'm curious as well.

How much of the answer is the same as for Germany? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41871953

Anything different because it's Canada?

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

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Post by lodisco »

cscurmudgeon wrote: post #332
tubalcain wrote: post #326

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Not really, they're professional stars too. Writing code is easy. Writing good code is hard.

The H1b paradigm of a herd of people writing bad code and a few stars fixing that code is breaking down everywhere. Just look at HP, Oracle, Intel, etc. etc.

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

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Post by z1g1 »

proberts wrote: post #221
z1g1 wrote: post #138

I run a coffee meetup in Buffalo, NY. Around graduation season we get a lot of international students who come and are looking for jobs but are worried about visa issues. What are the resources about what their actual situation is, and how I can help connect them to smaller companies who might not know how to sponsor students?

I'd recommend inviting a local immigration attorney to speak to the group and/or be available to answer questions because there's no one great resource.

Thank you

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

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Post by cscurmudgeon »

lodisco wrote: post #347
cscurmudgeon wrote: post #332

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Not really, they're professional stars too. Writing code is easy. Writing good code is hard. The H1b paradigm of a herd of people writing bad code and a few stars fixing that code is breaking down everywhere. Just look at HP, Oracle, Intel, etc. etc.

Why don’t you look at Google, Meta, etc?

1. A simple search would have shown the India is not at the bottom of the Olympics table.

2. Even if it is, what is the evidence it is due to genetics rather than culture?

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

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Post by robertlagrant »

greenthrow wrote: post #192
robertlagrant wrote: post #144

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The context was getting on with friends and family. I understand you might not able to think in these terms when it comes to the hated enemy, but if you think of all people as people, even Republicans, then you might notice that they don't all think the same things. Or even that they don't hate illegal immigrants, but think that laws are a good idea and criminals should be punished, not rewarded. This is just underst…

Did I say "all Republicans"? Nope. This is understanding English 101.

If you say "Republicans don't just hate illegal immigrants" it's pretty isomorphic to "All Republicans don't just hate illegal immigrants". Maybe that's English 102.
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