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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 proberts »

ra7 wrote: post #5

Is it risky to change jobs on H1B with an I-140 approved right now? Both in terms of H1B transfer and especially a new PERM filing since a lot of Americans are out of jobs right now. Have you noticed or do you anticipate PERM filings being difficult? Thanks for doing this, Peter!

To date, because of the pandemic and job loss, I haven't seen any change in H-1B or PERM processing (and in fact I would argue both have improved in recent months) but it's possible - even likely - that PERM processing will be impacted because of the job loss.

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

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Post by entityresq »

I'm a PhD from Bio background who became a data-scientist in a health-care related (but not biology research) company. I have been reasonably successful in this job, but because of the change in fields I lost my H1B to a failed RFE the one time I passed the lottery. Now I'm thinking of doing an O1 application, but my assumption has been that all my expertise must now be demonstrated in this new field of health-care data analytics and not from my PhD times, and I'm working on it.

My question is, has the difficulty of getting O-1 visas gone up significantly in the past year or so?

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

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Post by bjornsing »

Hi Peter!

I’m a highly skilled engineer and reasonably accomplished entrepreneur (founder of a VC-backed startup that is still alive but hasn’t taken off, and I no longer work there). I’m a natural born citizen of Sweden and I live there.

I’d like to emigrate to the US, with citizenship as the goal. I can spend a bit of money on it, but I’m not wealthy. What’s my best bet? What would you say is the probability of success?

Thanks in advance,

Björn

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

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Post by proberts »

namank wrote: post #14

Has the current political climate affected Canada to US TNs or are they still being issued as before? Any particular port of entry that you'd favor/avoid?

We're starting to see greater scrutiny and more irrational decision-making (such as concluding that a degree in computer science isn't an appropriate degree for software engineers) but for the most part, TN applications are being processed as before (by USCIS and CBP). Regarding ports to favor/avoid, the answer really depends on the nature and quality of the TN application.
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