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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 travisjungroth »

TheSpiceIsLife wrote: post #415
matmann2001 wrote: post #312

This might be a strange question, but I'll give it a shot anyway. Amongst myself and a number of friends (whom work in tech), we've observed a similar difficulty with meeting and employing lawyers for either personal- or business-related issues. We all seemed to arrive at the same conclusion that we don't know any lawyers personally, they don't seem to be part of our extended circle of acquaintances, and are difficul…

Excuse the brevity, and I don’t mean to sound harsh, apologies in advance. Presently doing two legal things that involve legal experts. So anyway, from my experience: No, you can’t buy your lawyer a beer. Your lawyer is not your friend . No lawyer wants to give you anything resembling advice, or even commentary lest it be construed as advice, for free, out of contract, over a beer. > without shelling out a decent sum…

It’s not obvious that OP was asking for legal advice in exchange for a beer.

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

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Post by TheSpiceIsLife »

travisjungroth wrote: post #421
TheSpiceIsLife wrote: post #415

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Excuse the brevity, and I don’t mean to sound harsh, apologies in advance. Presently doing two legal things that involve legal experts. So anyway, from my experience: No, you can’t buy your lawyer a beer. Your lawyer is not your friend . No lawyer wants to give you anything resembling advice, or even commentary lest it be construed as advice, for free, out of contract, over a beer. > without shelling out a decent sum…

It’s not obvious that OP was asking for legal advice in exchange for a beer.

My intention was to make it obvious.

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

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Post by Cd00d »

TheSpiceIsLife wrote: post #415
matmann2001 wrote: post #312

This might be a strange question, but I'll give it a shot anyway. Amongst myself and a number of friends (whom work in tech), we've observed a similar difficulty with meeting and employing lawyers for either personal- or business-related issues. We all seemed to arrive at the same conclusion that we don't know any lawyers personally, they don't seem to be part of our extended circle of acquaintances, and are difficul…

Excuse the brevity, and I don’t mean to sound harsh, apologies in advance. Presently doing two legal things that involve legal experts. So anyway, from my experience: No, you can’t buy your lawyer a beer. Your lawyer is not your friend . No lawyer wants to give you anything resembling advice, or even commentary lest it be construed as advice, for free, out of contract, over a beer. > without shelling out a decent sum…

No we don't, but I also have a really hard time finding physicians and dentists that I like and trust. It's not about getting work for free, it's about trust.

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

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Post by TheSpiceIsLife »

Cd00d wrote: post #423
TheSpiceIsLife wrote: post #415

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Excuse the brevity, and I don’t mean to sound harsh, apologies in advance. Presently doing two legal things that involve legal experts. So anyway, from my experience: No, you can’t buy your lawyer a beer. Your lawyer is not your friend . No lawyer wants to give you anything resembling advice, or even commentary lest it be construed as advice, for free, out of contract, over a beer. > without shelling out a decent sum…

No we don't, but I also have a really hard time finding physicians and dentists that I like and trust. It's not about getting work for free, it's about trust.

That's a fair point.

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

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Post by burfog »

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…

They should ask their country's embassy or consulate for help getting home. In many cases, travel assistance is available. They would then be in a fully legal status without all the trouble/stress/fear of hiding from the law and never knowing when they might be caught.

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

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Post by dudus »

techsupporter wrote: post #418
dudus wrote: post #408

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes but that process is very unfriendly. First you need to know you are going to spend over 1 year abroad. Since you can only apply before you leave. Second it takes month to approve and costs 500+ USD to apply for that permission. If you left without the intent to stay longer than a year and had to extend for unforeseen circumstances (say a global pandemic heavily reduced air travel options) than you are out of luck…

> But the USCIS seems to be a bit vague on what would happen if I did that. That's because the CBP officer who evaluates your request for entry on a permanent resident visa has the discretion to say that you are "likely" residing elsewhere and "remind"/"advise" you of the requirement to be permanently resident inside the United States in order to keep PR status. The six month rule is less of a rule and more of a pres…

That makes sense the system would be setup like that.

I'm not trying to game the system, but these are weird times. I wish USCIS was a bit more flexible during these times to avoid unnecessary travel and let people quarantine with family while maintaining status.

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

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Post by akshat_h »

proberts wrote: post #350
akshat_h wrote: post #288

Does an approved H1-B extension necessarily extends the i-94 date? If not, is the only alternative to leave the country, get a new visa stamp(which is not possible till Dec 31, AFAIK) and reenter the country?

If it is filed with a request for extension of status and not consular notification, then yes. The approval notice will indicate which and have an I-94 attached at the bottom if an extension. If it's filed with a request for consular notification, then you will need to leave the US and get a new H-1B visa and then reenter to activate it. I assume that when you say extension, you mean with the same employer?

Thanks!

Yes it is for the same employer. It will be with extension of status, and not consular notification, AFAIK, so that clears up my situation.

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

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Post by thewarpaint »

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?)

Hallo! You may want to check Stripe Atlas out: form a C Corp in Delaware for $500 plus some ongoing costs.

Disclaimer: I work at Stripe.

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

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Post by 0xy »

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.

If you're a European, chances are you earn 1/6th of the salary of an equivalently skilled American in tech. That's why they want to move.

Europe screws tech workers.

Would you trade better politics, as you perceive, for millions of dollars less in retirement when considering compounding investments?

In fact, Europeans can earn substantially more money by moving to the UK or Switzerland even. EU countries are some of the worst places to be for a talented software engineer.

New graduates in the US often earn more than senior-level developers in the EU.

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