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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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How 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?

Who/what are you referring to? Perhaps you know more than I do but that does not sound accurate to me.

I've made an egregious error. The Y Combinator leadership has expressed a lot of firm, unequivocal opposition to Donald Trump personally, and I have little doubt that they oppose his anti-immigration policies. Ironically it's because I use no social media, so I don't see these battles play out. I sincerely always liked the organization and its leadership, and I think I was victim to a particular drive-by accusation. Also, it seems like most of the venture capital leadership elsewhere, including powerful S&P500 chief executives, have eagerly collaborated, but it is wrong to generalize.

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

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It's like you read my response and failed to understand a thing.. I specifically mentioned concrete figures because politicians say all kinds of random shit and Trump is particularly prone to hyperbole, but if you're going to measure the actual deeds and trends behind words, you need to look at metrics, and for all Obama's soft words on immigrants, his admin actually deported more of them than Trump's, it's a notewor…

It’s almost like Trump knew that the actions he proposes are controversial at least, illegal possibly, so he tries to scare the illegals so that they leave of their own free will, saving him a trouble.,,

do you think people that know the existence of organ harvesting, human trafficking, Darién Gap would be scared by words? interact with a few see what they are running from will get a few interesting stories to say the least

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

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Yeah, so, any chance you could do a monthly-or-so post that explains, in legal terms (of course!) why referring to an entire, diverse bunch of people as "H1Bs" (which, as you know, is just a visa class and pretty much, as you also know, the only path to legally entering the US as an immigrant without family ties or, well, the future-Head-Guy-or-one-of-his-cronies fancying you) is, like, a crime against humanity? Beca…

> why referring to an entire, diverse bunch of people as "H1Bs" Even though you seem to be getting downvoted aggressively, I’m going to provide a short, good-faith reply. First, I’m not Peter, and I’m not an immigration lawyer, but I can provide insight as someone who knows and has worked with many H1Bs. Second, this thread covers the major points, imho: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskALiberal/comments/1huxnn1/why_is...…

> Qualified Americans losing their jobs (e.g., relatively recent layoffs) and struggling to find work. Meanwhile, H1Bs remain employed [...].

Why do you want to destroy market power for people on visas even further, leading to even more exploitation than exists today?

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

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A very similar play book to the one used by the Conservative Party in the UK. They were somehow deemed the "anti-immigration party" of the two major ones, despite having been resposible for some of the highest immigration rates of any era. There's nothing better to distract from rampant inequality and a rapid transfer of wealth from the middle class to the super rich than a boat load of immigrants, that were somehow…

> despite having been resposible for some of the highest immigration rates of any era But at least they got the poles out, right? Poland is supposed to surpass the UK economically (maybe per capita) in like 10 years.

curious what data do people look at? GDP growth? interested for a personal project

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

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You're claiming that Trump is pro-immigration?

Seriously? That's your take on a specific reference to hard numbers? Has Trump derangement syndrome simply made some people lose their capacity for reason? I don't believe Trump is specifically pro-immigration. I think he leans more to whatever the hell benefits his popularity with the people most likely to support him in any given moment and part of that revolves around harping about illegal immigrants, though the a…

Your links are broken. No one here can see your "hard numbers"

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

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post #277

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> despite having been resposible for some of the highest immigration rates of any era But at least they got the poles out, right? Poland is supposed to surpass the UK economically (maybe per capita) in like 10 years.

curious what data do people look at? GDP growth? interested for a personal project

I think it was GDP, probably ppp.

This explains it a bit better:

https://cebr.com/blogs/claims-that-poland-will-be-richer-tha...

It was hyperbole, but the ppp gap will keep on shrinking and with that the desire of poles to even go to the UK will keep decreasing.

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

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Hi Peter, I am wondering what's the best way to move from O1 to Green Card? I have my own startup which has sponsored by O-1 visa but need to get a green card to stay in the Bay Area long term. I am a Canadian Citizen if that helps.

For founders, the two options are EB2 national interest waiver and EB1A extraordinary ability and which path to choose will require an analysis of your background and the company. EB1A is much faster but the bar is much higher although many founders who've created "successful" companies qualify.

Thank you, I wasn't familiar with EB2. I did exit my last company in 2021 to a Fortune 500 -- if that counts as a "successful"

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

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I agree with other commenters that the meaning is clear. But I think they underestimate how far the Supreme Court is willing to go to torture the meaning of the Constitution. Hopefully I am wrong.

Are you talking about the current Supreme Court, or the folks who think “emanations from penumbras” is valid constitutional law?

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