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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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Hi Peter! I’m a highly skilled engineer and reasonably accomplished entrepreneur (founder of a VC-backed startup that is still alive but hasn’t taken off, and I no longer work there). I’m a natural born citizen of Sweden and I live there. I’d like to emigrate to the US, with citizenship as the goal. I can spend a bit of money on it, but I’m not wealthy. What’s my best bet? What would you say is the probability of suc…

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

#62

Are we still having interviews for EB1-B during I-485 filings, given the pandemic?

The local USCIS offices are first scheduling I-485 appointments for those whose appointments were cancelled because of the office closures and even though the offices are slowly reopening, we are still seeing approvals without interviews.

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

#63

I have a job offer from Microsoft in Vancouver and might move there after the pandemic ends. I am Indian citizen residing in India. The main challenge however is that I am disabled (quadriplegic) and I would be needing a caregiver to travel with me to Canada. I understand that there used to be a caregiver visa, for Canada, which was discontinued back in 2019. So my question really is, is there a way in which I can br…

I can't comment on Canadian immigration but I can share the names of some good providers in Canada if you'd like. Just email me.

Sure, that will be great. How to email you?

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

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Hey Peter, Thank you so much for doing this! Im a German citizen living in Mexico. Since I have been to Iran I no longer qualify for ESTA and had to apply for a visa at the embassy here in Mexico City to visit the USA. My visa has been in processing for 2y now and I have not received any response other than "still in processing, we will be in touch". What do you recommend? Is there anything I can do to accelerate thi…

Never heard about not being eligible for ESTA after having travelled to Iran. WTF? What kind of weird rule is that?

And you did not use the two passports trick - common if you are Woking in the middle east ?

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

#66
For most political conflicts I can figure out who would benefit and who would lose if a given policy decision gets made. For a ban on immigration of highly skilled workers I don't understand who benefits - it seems like a lose-lose to me.

Can you explain the motivation behind preventing foreign engineers and scientists from entering the USA?

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#68

Do you think it's a good idea to delay the application for Green Cards until after November to understand better the political landscape and also hopefully see a recovery of jobs given unemployment would affect PERMs?

That's a tough question because the answer depends in part on what your job and background are, where you live, etc. but I don't think so. I'm generally inclined not to make decisions based on what might happen (because so much is just unknown) and instead proceed based on how things are now.

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

#69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If your talking about transnational corporations that have a base of operation in a given country then they made a financial decision to invest in people and workers from that country, not game the system by bringing in foreign workers for cheaper wages.

If you don't let non-americans into the us, they cant be employers of americans.

Yes because I'm sure this attorney's work revolves around hiering CEOs and management positions. Point being that a tiny fraction of the people being brought here are not going to be employers and buissness owners. Most people are just taking jobs from Americans.

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

#70

How do you justify being an American whose work entierly revolves around taking jobs that Americans could have fulfilled and trying to give them to people who are not citizens, did not grow up here, and see America as nothing less than an institution they can use to get ahead?

The idea of a lump of labor is one of the oldest fallacies, and is a mark of a very small, closed mind that is unable to consider higher-order effects.
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