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my personal chances seem to be about zero. at least without spending a lot of time, money and effort. when i last applied it rapidly descended into a process that felt like bribery and moving goalposts. that being said, i in no way blame america for making it hard for people of arab descent who spent any serious amount of time immersed in that culture. i would do the same. (i /assume/ that was the problem - i may wel…
my personal chances seem to be about zero. at least without spending a lot of time, money and effort. when i last applied it rapidly descended into a process that felt like bribery and moving goalposts. that being said, i in no way blame america for making it hard for people of arab descent who spent any serious amount of time immersed in that culture. i would do the same. (i /assume/ that was the problem - i may wel…
That's too bad man. :(
Or, in other words, how much will you deprive your own society of and contribute to American society, assuring our domination and your society's dependence and subjugation.
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That's too bad man. :(
This is just so depressing.
the form i had to fill out riddled with questions about arab descent made me skeptical...
it might have been more to do with my past, having a minor criminal record as a child or my loud and public controversial nature... or anything else that they could determine from my UK passport number and other details i provided when I initially applied for an ESTA (you don't normally need a visa as a UK citizen).
I have a PhD in philosophy (with a dissertation on symbolic logic). When I was interviewing in the US, I was told repeatedly that it would impossible for me to get an H1B visa for an IT job because my degree is not in science or engineering. BorderScore doesn't seem to take this sort of thing into account, unless I'm missing something.
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I'm gonna take a stab in the dark and guess it's an MVP where they manually assess your skills. Also, this is a YC company and it looks like this is a pivot or alternatively they're trying to find more candidates for clients, who then pay them a fee to sort out the visa?
That's somewhat correct, although we have a bunch of stuff on the back-end that we're not quite ready to talk about yet :) Not a pivot, just an experiment to see how people respond. Give it a whirl and let us/me know!
I have a PhD in philosophy (with a dissertation on symbolic logic). When I was interviewing in the US, I was told repeatedly that it would impossible for me to get an H1B visa for an IT job because my degree is not in science or engineering. BorderScore doesn't seem to take this sort of thing into account, unless I'm missing something.
They ask for a LI profile don't they?
I have a PhD in philosophy (with a dissertation on symbolic logic). When I was interviewing in the US, I was told repeatedly that it would impossible for me to get an H1B visa for an IT job because my degree is not in science or engineering. BorderScore doesn't seem to take this sort of thing into account, unless I'm missing something.
I'd try the service to see if it takes that into account but I deleted my LinkedIn account a long time ago.
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I'm gonna take a stab in the dark and guess it's an MVP where they manually assess your skills. Also, this is a YC company and it looks like this is a pivot or alternatively they're trying to find more candidates for clients, who then pay them a fee to sort out the visa?
That's somewhat correct, although we have a bunch of stuff on the back-end that we're not quite ready to talk about yet :) Not a pivot, just an experiment to see how people respond. Give it a whirl and let us/me know!