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How do you see the increase in robotics and AI on your work over the next couple of years? Will demand drop in general or will we continue to see an influx of people with a diminishing amount of jobs?
How easy is it for canadians with Tn-1 visas these days?
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EB1As are extremely difficult to get right now. This is particularly true for non-scientific/research/academic employees who are not very highly compensated.
Small clarification on wording here (non-). Do you mean academics/researchers are finding it challenging? For context, am postdoc and I was told by a local immigration firm, within the last year, that I had a good profile for EB1A.
Not sure if this is too high level, but do you have a "dashboard" of sorts for very high level US immigration stats for tech you could share? Perhaps you have access to a series of charts that show overall visa applications, then broken down by type, the change over time (by year, for instance) and then the approval/denial rates and the change in those rates over time? You obviously have a front-row seat to how curre…
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/v...
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Explicitly and openly not acting in good faith.
That is your contention though. The government needs to prove that in a court of law that they are violating the statute or the regulations.
Do visa holders have to register for military drafts?
See here: https://www.sss.gov/register/who-needs-to-register/#p1 . Essentially, U.S. citizens and green card holders need to register but there are other groups as well.
Thanks for doing this. - How difficult has it become to get O1 for founders compared to say 5 years ago? -What advice would you have for founders who think they should be able to get O1 once they have a bit of seed money (say YC, 500k) and press coverage?
It's definitely more difficult but well within reach of founders (particularly founders with funding and organic press coverage) and talented professionals. That is, until very recently. It's too early to say whether this is a trend or an aberration but the past few weeks we've seen USCIS apply a different standard, one similar to the EB1A standard. If this is a trend, then I suspect that the RFE and denial rates for…
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Generally lawyers need to be involved to make sure any rejections are compliant. There's a whole cottage industry around this. Personally, given the state of unemployment in the tech sector right now, I think it should be virtually impossible to fill a PERM right now because pretty much any position could be filled with a US LPR or citizen and the only reason it isn't is because the whole process is deliberately obfu…
> I also think that doing layoffs in the US should disqualify you from doing any PERM or sponsoring any visa for 2-3 years. This is a very SW mindset, and makes no sense in other circumstances. If my company canceled a large SW project, and laid off a lot of SW folks, why should that prevent them from sponsoring someone to work on nanoelectronics?
Our re-entry permits are coming up for renewal soon. We're considering giving up my wife's and kids' green cards, and keeping only mine. The reason for keeping mine is twofold: (1) most of my assets are in the US, and I want to take my time shifting to non-US-domiciled assets to avoid the non-resident estate tax; and (2) I still travel frequently to the US -- 3 or 4 times a year -- for work.
Do you foresee any problems with my family giving up their green cards now, and me holding on to it?
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Generally lawyers need to be involved to make sure any rejections are compliant. There's a whole cottage industry around this. Personally, given the state of unemployment in the tech sector right now, I think it should be virtually impossible to fill a PERM right now because pretty much any position could be filled with a US LPR or citizen and the only reason it isn't is because the whole process is deliberately obfu…
> I also think that doing layoffs in the US should disqualify you from doing any PERM or sponsoring any visa for 2-3 years. This is a very SW mindset, and makes no sense in other circumstances. If my company canceled a large SW project, and laid off a lot of SW folks, why should that prevent them from sponsoring someone to work on nanoelectronics?
Because companies should be held accountable when they make mistakes in hiring. The employees shouldn’t have to bear the burden of their employers mistakes.