I‘m an economics student from Germany. My plan for the future is to do a masters in CS. One day I want to work in the US tech industry. I‘m not sure yet if I will do my masters in the US or in Germany. In Germany higher education is free, but if studying in the US would help with getting a visa (and later GC) it would be worth it for me. Do you think that studying in the US increases my chance of a visa, and how likely is it that I get one with a econ BS and an computer science MS?
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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I have an EB-1A (extraordinary ability). I can try to help you if you give me some details. Like, why do you want to pursue the EB-1 route ? I ask because, the way you've phrased the question "satisfy the requirements of EB-1", I don't think you fully understand what it entails. Its not like a driver's license you apply at the local DMV - I know how to drive, now give me the license! Its more like - you are making a…
What kind of roles in tech industry get EB-1A, apart from management?
Anything niche is good candidate. I'll give you a few examples. One of these examples was me, the rest were my friends who also got the EB-1A.
Examples - software eng in investment bank building some complicated bond pricing engine with some heavyduty math, software eng in car manufacturer building an EE tool to visualize hazard parameters after car crash, software eng in bio building tool used for genetic splicing, software eng in pharma building tool for drug identification from trials.
As you see, none of these is management. Regular software engineer, usual BS/MS in Computer Science, not in tech industry, but in some niche field (typical boring East Coast/Midwest/Defense Corridor company), building something niche to support PhDs in the team. The PhDs then give you tons of supporting paperwork that basically says your presence in USA is "in the national interest" & if you don't get EB1 their whole research will come to a halt. If immigration officer buys into that, you get your EB1.
Re: I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
#273Hi Peter, I'm sponsoring my wife's green card and we're pretty type A and have filled out all the forms and gathered copious evidence of relationship, evidence of financial sufficiency, etc. But we're worried about the current political climate and are considering working with Fragomen just to de-risk. We've heard the current administration is rejecting applications for every little reason (e.g. field that should be…
Please don't even consider Fragomen. Ask any Amazon engineer and they'll tell you the same thing: do not ever work with Fragomen. I personally had to talk to my manager and hire my own lawyer instead of working with Fragomen after countless delays and mistakes. They don't care about you or your case at all and the paralegals are outright incompetent. You don't really get to talk to the lawyer a lot anyway. I'd go wit…
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