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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 bounded_agent »

Say my close friend / future cofounder is here on a B-1. He's looking to extend it for 6 months pretty soon. Do you think the current situation means that it's more or less likely to get approved?

I'd be optimistic about the baseline situation, but given the pandemic, I don't know whether the government would be (a) very slow, allowing the person lots of time to stay while govt makes their call, or (b) unusually efficient AND strict.

(Thanks for helping everyone out on this thread!)

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

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Post by proberts »

random6756 wrote: post #201

Hi Peter, I hold a GC and have been working outside the US on reentry permit. The latter has already been renewed once, expiring again in Q1 2021. Two questions: 1. Do you anticipate any impact of changing policies on people holding GCs but working outside? 2. What would be the best time to apply for a third extension of the reentry permit, given the pandemic situation. Thanks.

Q1) No. Q2) You can only apply for a one-year renewal. There are different strategies here depending on how much longer you plan on living abroad and when you intend to travel to the U.S. next.

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

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Post by 29athrowaway »

ICE_enforcement wrote: post #218
serniebanders wrote: post #151

I'm not sure if this is the right forum to ask, but I thought I'll try because I couldn't find much information online. My neighbor is a really nice undocumented immigrant family. The family has 2 hard working kids who used to tutor others kids in the neighborhood to make income. They are now suffering because they don't have work and they need help. I have been giving them a monthly stipend to help them pay for food…

Amazing that your comment promoting illegal activity is at the very top of the thread. I wonder if Peter Roberts would be under any ethical obligation to report this to the authorities?

Perhaps some those illegals are descendants of American citizens.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Repatriation

400,000 to 2,000,000 "Mexicans" (including their American-born children, technically US citizens) living in territories annexed by the US were "repatriated" (put into buses and sent to Mexico). In other words, this is ethnic cleansing.

Some of them owned land and properties, and were forced to abandon them with no compensation.

Racists don't give a shit about legal immigration. If all those people of Mexican descent were legal immigrants, they would still find a way to discriminate them. It's just the excuse of the day.

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

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Post by komali2 »

ICE_enforcement wrote: post #238
komali2 wrote: post #232

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Giving money to undocumented immigrants isn't illegal. Establishing a non profit to direct money to undocumented immigrants isn't illegal. What was the illegal activity you were talking about?

Why are you calling them undocumented, and not illegal?

Because the concept of an illegal human is philosophically and ethically absurd.

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

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Post by kylehotchkiss »

I'm a citizen waiting for a green card application for my wife in India. We've had our docs approved by NVC and everything. Any ideas how long the mumbai embassy is going to be closed? They aren't saying a peep online, near total radio silence from them. Curious if you've heard any credible timeframes on their reopening.

Thanks Peter.

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

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Post by bitL »

alexhektor wrote: post #109

German citizen here. Q1) What is (/are) the easiest path(s) to start a company in the US and/or seek funding there for Europeans? How costly is it? Q2) If there's already a company registered in Germany for example, how costly (approximately) is the process to "register a subsidiary" in the US (required for YC), and how would the visas work? (Would spouses be allowed and be able to get a working permit?)

Q1) starting a LLC in Delaware/Nevada <$200, renting a P.O.Box that scans incoming mail <$100/year. You can't start an S-Corp (but you can tax a LLC as S-Corp) and starting a C-Corp can get very expensive (tax based on the number of shares). Most VCs require a C-Corp. Angels might be fine with an LLC.

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

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Post by ICE_enforcement »

komali2 wrote: post #231
ICE_enforcement wrote: post #224

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you are a lawyer, yes.

Any lawyer? The obvious question: what about a lawyer in Nazi Germany? If you say of course not in that case, you acknowledge that there are unethical laws. If you say of course even Nazi lawyers are acting ethically, your absolutionist viewpoint doesn't exactly fit in with the messy real world.

Any lawyer who has passed the bar, and is under a code of professional conduct. Your invocation of Godwin's law is not going to change anything.

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Post by manuelabeledo »

L1-B holder here, in the process of getting my PERM.

Lawyers told me that my degree does not qualify as a BSc, even after I send them the certificate that proves it does. Apparently, anything under five years is not considered a BSc. They also told me that my 15+ years of experience have little value, as they will only consider the five most recent.

What is the position of the USCIS about this?

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

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Post by UncleOxidant »

superhuzza wrote: post #194
UncleOxidant wrote: post #161

I'm a bit surprised that there are so many Canadian & Europeans wanting to get into the US to work at this point given our rapidly deteriorating political and covid19 situation.

My last job in Canada paid me $70k CAD, or $52k USD. The same job in the US would likely pay me $115k USD.

Sure, but in Canada you've got a much more robust social safety net and healthcare not to mention a sane leader.

Now that a lot of jobs are allowing remote work why not live in Canada and work for a US company?

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