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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 codybontecou »

anu7df wrote: post #87
testfrequency wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’ll spare a new thread and just ask here as we are in the same situation (sorry OP!). My understanding is we at least need to be in the US once every six months in order for my partner to maintain their green card status while we live abroad. We were not aware of the reentry permit, does this avoid the requirements of needing to enter the country periodically? We are of course concerned about losing their green card…

Re-entry permit is granted for 2 years and the only requirement is that you apply for it while in country. Usual processing time nowadays is around a year so in effect you need to apply once every 3 years for it. They have the option of sending it to a us embassy abroad for pick up but we have always had it sent to a friends address in US and picked it up while visiting US.

You didn't have any issues re-entering the US prior to picking up the permit from your friend's address?

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

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Post by aylmao »

dalyons wrote: post #67
bc569a80a344f9c wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s a legal requirement to carry your green card with you at all times. INA 264(e) has required this for as long as I’ve been in the US (which is since 2004). To be more specific: >> (e) Every alien, eighteen years of age and over, shall at all times carry with him and have in his personal possession any certificate of alien registration or alien registration receipt card issued to him pursuant to subsection (d). An…

Personally I don’t carry my GC, because I’m far more likely to lose it than for anyone to ever ask for it. And it’s kind of a nightmare to replace, takes awhile and you can’t travel. To put it another way, the $100 fine is less expensive to me than the consequences of losing it.

If I understand the comment above correctly, one can carry an I94 too and those you can just print on the website [1]

I'm guessing there's no size requirements? If so it might be a good idea to just print four on an A4, and have one folded in your wallet, one tucked in your bag-pack, one in the car, etc.

[1]: https://i94.cbp.dhs.gov/search/recent-search

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

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Post by ghostly_s »

TechDebtDevin wrote: post #88
loteck wrote: post #73

Hi Peter - do you have any specific thoughts for people posting about immigration scenarios here, to help keep themselves safe? Given that it was recently revealed that ICE is monitoring these comments.[0][1] [0] https://www.404media.co/the-200-sites-an-ice-surveillance-co... [1] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VyAaJaWCutyJyMiTXuDH...

Why are they monitoring Zillow...

because securing housing is a big part of residing somewhere?

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

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Post by haiku2077 »

TechDebtDevin wrote: post #88
loteck wrote: post #73

Hi Peter - do you have any specific thoughts for people posting about immigration scenarios here, to help keep themselves safe? Given that it was recently revealed that ICE is monitoring these comments.[0][1] [0] https://www.404media.co/the-200-sites-an-ice-surveillance-co... [1] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VyAaJaWCutyJyMiTXuDH...

Why are they monitoring Zillow...

Zillow has rental management services - i.e. there are people who pay their rent though zillow.com

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

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Post by ghostly_s »

bc569a80a344f9c wrote: post #41
unhappy_meaning wrote: post #26

Hello Mr. Roberts, Thank you for doing this, as you know we've probably have seen some crazy news articles and segments of ICE agents arresting people all over the U.S. with some for good and some for wrong reasons. What is your advice or best practice for someone who is "wrongfully" approached by ICE agents but has legal status to be in the U.S.? (whether work visa or green card) I've read that someone should carry…

It’s a legal requirement to carry your green card with you at all times. INA 264(e) has required this for as long as I’ve been in the US (which is since 2004). To be more specific: >> (e) Every alien, eighteen years of age and over, shall at all times carry with him and have in his personal possession any certificate of alien registration or alien registration receipt card issued to him pursuant to subsection (d). An…

Are you user proberts?

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

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Post by haiku2077 »

loteck wrote: post #73

Hi Peter - do you have any specific thoughts for people posting about immigration scenarios here, to help keep themselves safe? Given that it was recently revealed that ICE is monitoring these comments.[0][1] [0] https://www.404media.co/the-200-sites-an-ice-surveillance-co... [1] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VyAaJaWCutyJyMiTXuDH...

(not peter)

It is absolutely wild that people are posting about the ways that they have broken the letter of immigration law on here using their regular accounts and identifiable IP addresses.

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

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Post by ge96 »

mertleee wrote: post #89
kappi wrote: post #45

why is ycombinator promoting immigration thru H1B when so many US born CS grads are finding it hard to get job. In 2023, American colleges graduated 134,153 citizens or green card holders with bachelor's or master's degrees in computer science. That same year, our federal government handed out work permits to at least 110,098 foreign workers in computer occupations through just three major guest worker programs. That…

It's disgusting. Many VC firms outside of YC flagrantly promote what is basically fraud. There are literally YC companies that provide pseudo visa fraud as a service. Following the law and having respect for the immigration system is simply seen as an "inconvenient challenge" to these people. I myself am a person of color, but in the cohort I was in (of 30) maybe three individuals were native born Americans of any ra…

On my LinkedIn saw some guy saying "Hit me up if you want EB-1 I know a guy" not sure what it entails but was weird to promote that. Guy is a hustler/grinder though in general.

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

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Post by unsui »

xmprt wrote: post #81
dalyons wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Personally I don’t carry my GC, because I’m far more likely to lose it than for anyone to ever ask for it. And it’s kind of a nightmare to replace, takes awhile and you can’t travel. To put it another way, the $100 fine is less expensive to me than the consequences of losing it.

They can also put you in jail for up to 30 days if they're feeling like it. Seems crazy to me but also perfectly legal for them to do.

There are a lot of things that are "perfectly legal" to do. Doesn't mean that, in practice, law enforcement would necessarily take the most extreme legal action possible.

This is a new development (well, new-ish for many communities... I imagine predominatly-black communities have always experience this) whereby LE is explicitly instructed to look for any legal course of action to punitively enforce the law (rather than using a more judicious interpretation, which was more in line with the spirit of many of these regulations).

So yes, technically, law-abiding citizens should always xxxx. Does that mean that, in real life, folks always do this? Only if they are in a paranoid state whereby LE maliciously enforces the law for any minor violation and enforces overwhelming (often illegal) responses to these infractions.

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