Yup, where did you go to singapore from? (i am from sg)
Today My US Investor Visa Application Was Denied
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#32It's not always easy to get in, which means the US tends to get immigrants who have a lot of initiative. This works out great for us. For you, keep trying. And as others have suggested, work wherever you are to continue developing your business in the meantime.
As an aside, have you considered having a usability professional do an evaluation of your web site and business idea? This kind of third-party opinion might be very valuable. It could even be a student in a usability program at a decent university, to save money.
Which leads to this thought: Now that you've announced to the world that you have a (very small) pile of money, I'm sure many people will be glad to help you spend it. You should be a little more careful and discrete imho.
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#33I feel for you ... the U.S. visa and immigration process sucks. My wife's parents were denied a visitor's visa to come to our wedding (from Taiwan). The system is broken, discriminatory, slow and unfair.
A good friend is a very brilliant Welshman (born and raised there until age 18) now living in southern California. His father has been here for 21 years and has his US citizenship. My friend, who runs a very successful business and is also a quality contributor to the local economy, has been stuck in the paperwork system for 7 years now. Every 6-8 months they send him another letter telling him it will be another 6-8 months. He can stay legally because he got here just early enough to miss the "wait for your green-card in your home country" rule - but they won't grant him re-entry if he leaves - so he's stuck. Can't take his son back to Wales to see his grandparents, etc etc.
Meanwhile, his father married a Brazilian trophy wife last year who doesn't work, doesn't volunteer, doesn't contribute economically, who received her green-card about 3 months after they got married.
The system is flawed.
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#34"... I wonder why America does not welcome entrepreneurs and have to rant from a hotel whose desk is smaller than my laptop."
There are one of two possibilities: all is not as it seems based on your story, or because the U.S. immigration "system" is idiotic. The latter is a fact, and the only question is whether it applies to your particular case.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm sure other Visas can be tough, but I got my spouse visa in Japan in a few weeks from the time I started. A couple simple forms, less than $100 in fees, and a couple trips to the immigration office. The US is ~$1,400, 6 months, multiple appointments, and a stack of paperwork for the same thing. Really pathetic. There's no excuse (no, not even volume).
I am guessing you are white and from a "tier 1" country? Your experience might have been very different coming from, say, Indonesia. They can go into much greater detail and require higher standards of evidence if they think there could be an economic motive to your move. I can't speak to the US experience but it's basically the same deal in Australia - a good friend of mine got her spouse visa literally overnight fr…
Its not about status of the country , each country is given a fixed quota . Usually from developed countries less number of people are trying to come to America than from say a third world country, so the backlog of a applications is less , thus the faster processing.
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#36As others have said , stay away from America . It's full of nationalist/protectionist rage these days and guess where its all directed at - yeah immigrants . I am assuming the reason you want to move is to collaborate with really smart people and feel the vibe , there are other countries with lot going on for them without all the nonsensical stuff. Come to India , seriously.
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#37then write a much longer rant someday.
This sounds like you are giving up. I try to abstain from uncouth language on HN, but there is a saying: "Shit happens." I know little about this situation, but I do know of other unfair situations: illegal aliens cooking up Japanese food in the back of a restaurant down the street from me; a small company outside of Pittsburgh who hired a Chinese person just so the Chinese guy could get a green card (and then the guy quit as soon as he was on his way).
To quote an inspirational fictional character, no matter how tough you think you are it'll always bring you to your knees and keep you there. Permanently if you let it. You or nobody ain’t never gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard you hit, it’s about how hard you can get hit and keep movin forward
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am guessing you are white and from a "tier 1" country? Your experience might have been very different coming from, say, Indonesia. They can go into much greater detail and require higher standards of evidence if they think there could be an economic motive to your move. I can't speak to the US experience but it's basically the same deal in Australia - a good friend of mine got her spouse visa literally overnight fr…
Its not about status of the country , each country is given a fixed quota . Usually from developed countries less number of people are trying to come to America than from say a third world country, so the backlog of a applications is less , thus the faster processing.
That may be a factor, but it is not the only factor. When applying for a spouse visa, someone from (say) Norway has little economic incentive to gain the visa. As a general rule of thumb, their visa will be subject to less checks and the marriage assumed to be genuine. They just don't have much motive to lie or try and fake their way through.
Someone moving from (say) Cambodia, however, will face an entirely different situation. They plainly have any number of motives to get the hell out of Cambodia and into a big rich country. These motives can and do lead to fake marriages, fake information, everything. The application will be given a far greater level of scrutiny and will take a lot longer.
Hell, don't take my word for it, Australian immigration spells it out. Here's the official "assessment level" (ie, assumed risk) of people applying for student visas here:
http://www.immi.gov.au/students/students/chooser/574-nonjs.h...
Plan on a miserable experience if you're not from a country in level 1. And you can be sure there's a much more detailed one for internal use, for spouses, etc.
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#39Can you please not post in monospace? You don't have any code in your article and it makes things difficult to read.
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#40May be a basic question but did you go through the visa norms before applying? The official site clearly mentions at least $500K as minimal investment (and employ at least 10 people etc) for consideration under the investor visa!
(http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.5af9bb95919f...)