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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
#252What is an approximate cost of all fees and expenditures given the premium processing in Bay Area for a company which wants to hire H1B from another one?
Re: I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney, who does work for YC and startups. AMA
#253Hi Peter! Thanks for doing this. I'm a college dropout working as a SWE at one of the FAANG companies in Europe. I understand that there are two paths I can take -- getting transferred by my company on an L-1B or try to compensate a degree with 12+ years of experience for an H1-B. Do you have any tips for people without degrees from what you've seen in practice? How often do you see people without a degree getting an…
Isn't the O-1 visa (in tech fields) mostly for PhDs with a strong research track record? I would assume you can get one if you have a bunch of publications and citations without a PhD, but isn't that the usual path?
Re: I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney, who does work for YC and startups. AMA
#254How do you square away your relationship with Y Combinator, which has been by all means positive, with the eager collaboration of its leadership with the most anti-immigrant administration in history?
are there any publicly available datasets that can be observed to verify this quantitatively? or does homeland not publish any data
Re: I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney, who does work for YC and startups. AMA
#255Some family friends are part of a diaspora seeking asylum from Russia. Their hearing dates all fall inside 2026. Part of their asylum plea is admission to activities that Russia criminalized during the invasion of Ukraine - draft dodging, dissemination information about the invasion, and sending aid money to their relatives in Ukrainian. If they were deported back to Russia, their asylum plea would ostensibly be used…
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Re: I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney, who does work for YC and startups. AMA
#256How do you square away your relationship with Y Combinator, which has been by all means positive, with the eager collaboration of its leadership with the most anti-immigrant administration in history?
Can't speak for the incoming four years, but a look at deportations by year under Trump, Biden and previous to that, Obama show illegal migrant deportations during Trump's first term were lower than they were during every year of Obama's presidency except one, sometimes greatly lower. They were also only moderately higher than they were during the four years of the Biden administration.
A shot of hard facts after being bathed in hyperbole. Oops.
https://www.migrationpolicy.org/.../biden-deportation-record https://ohss.dhs.gov/.../immigration/yearbook/2019/table39
Re: I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney, who does work for YC and startups. AMA
#257How do you square away your relationship with Y Combinator, which has been by all means positive, with the eager collaboration of its leadership with the most anti-immigrant administration in history?
Also, feel like specifying how its collaboration has been "eager" or how it in any relevant way is related to the plight of migrants, instead of just tossing out some accusatory virtue signalling?
Re: I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney, who does work for YC and startups. AMA
#258Thanks for doing this Peter. I have two questions, advice on either/both would be much appreciated! 1) Partner moved to the US in L1B status, after 2-3 years successfully adjusted to L1A status, based on having been promoted and perhaps been initially misclassified. Would they be eligible for the EB1C green card? 2) How can an individual on the STEM OPT extension best work on their own entrepreneurial ventures? Would…
1. The EB1C has the additional requirement that the applicant's employment abroad also must have been managerial or executive (which at the end of the day means people management). This is where those who move from L-1B to L-1A sometimes fall short. 2. This requires a discussion unfortunately because if you look at the websites of 10 different schools, you will get 10 different views on whether an F-1 can get STEM OP…
Thanks Peter! On 2) is this something you could help with through a consultation, if/when I decide to go try this route?
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#259Are there really not enough qualified American born engineers? Do you see exponentially better talent from H1b engineers?
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#260Earlier quoted context omitted.
Good question and I don't know the answer but this is sure to be a battleground in the coming years, states refusing to enforce federal law or to act as agents of the federal government.
Well, since "federal law can't impose on state law" has been the SCOTUS party line for the last X years, we might as well use that line of reasoning here...
Where did you get that from? Federal laws usually do override state laws. Whether the states have to help enforce federal law is a different question, though, and seems to be a "no" given the examples of marijuana and immigration.