Today My US Investor Visa Application Was Denied

  Yesterday I left my wife and 3-month old son

    to come to Singapore for my US investor visa
    
    second interview.

  Today my application was denied

    because the visa officer thinks my $65,000

    startup investment is not substantial.

  This application has cost me countless number of

    hours and $10,000+ to prepare

    that I wanted to ask her if I could have

    invested that time and money in my startup

    would it make my investment substantial?

  But I wasn't given a chance to dispute.

  Today is a long day

    that I wonder why America does not welcome

    entrepreneurs

    and have to rant from a hotel whose desk is

    smaller than my laptop.

  But tomorrow I will return to my wife and son

    and continue to work on my startup

    then write a much longer rant someday.

If it makes you feel any better, you can have a successful business without being in the US, and should you later want to move the startup to the US having a successful business and all the fixings (such as a good immigration lawyer) will make the process quite a bit easier than it is when you're "just somebody with a gleam in his eye".

Immigration officials in both the US and Japan are not set up for tech companies, by the way. I used to work in a governmental unit of the prefecture which, ahem, zealously advocated the national government apply its immigration laws in the best interests of our prefectural high tech industry. If you're interested in trying the visa thing again in the near future, see if you can find yourself a stateside advocate like that. (I'd be kind of surprised if California doesn't have at least one state office which does something like that, probably sort of quietly for the obvious reason.)

Good luck with your startup!