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Take me as an Intern – 19yo student seeking internship

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Re: Take me as an Intern – 19yo student seeking internship

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post #45

Why do you want to intern? Seems like with your skills you could just work (and get paid for) a real job.

I don't know if that's the case here, but a lot of European colleges require summer internships. Compensation is sometimes permitted, but status of employment must be an internship.

Uhh, I've never seen that to be the case and I'm from Europe.

Re: Take me as an Intern – 19yo student seeking internship

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post #33

Since he's from Slovakia, does he have the visa status to work in the US? Will a startup go through H1-B process for a summer intern? Also, if he doesn't go through the formal visa process and tries to do his summer internship with a visitor visa, he may be banned from the US for 10 years. Given that he's publicly publicizing coming to the US to work, it would be very easy for USCIS to block his entry into the US.

As others mentioned, J1 is the visa for this.

I'd suggest checking this out: http://culturalvistas.org/

Re: Take me as an Intern – 19yo student seeking internship

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Did you steal some of that code from Visual Idiot instead of creating your own version? http://www.hostmeinca.com/assets/js/animated-background.js http://vaguelyexciting.com/js/site.js Edit: Thanks HN; I wasn't aware the code was from Codrops. Move along, folks, nothing to see here. Sorry dude! Nice site. Don't go for an internship though. You command an escalation of experience that opens doors to regular full time…

Interesting, how did you even catch this?

Re: Take me as an Intern – 19yo student seeking internship

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post #55

Brilliant work. I wish I had your skills at 19. The photography and design mesh perfectly well together. I bet you will have no problem getting to the USA to study and work.

For work - what about H1B visa? Even if a company agrees to go through the process, he still has a slim chance of getting the visa, right?

I am just trying to familiarise myself to the process since I will be going through it next year.

Re: Take me as an Intern – 19yo student seeking internship

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Did you steal some of that code from Visual Idiot instead of creating your own version? http://www.hostmeinca.com/assets/js/animated-background.js http://vaguelyexciting.com/js/site.js Edit: Thanks HN; I wasn't aware the code was from Codrops. Move along, folks, nothing to see here. Sorry dude! Nice site. Don't go for an internship though. You command an escalation of experience that opens doors to regular full time…

Interesting, how did you even catch this?

Visual Idiot is a notable name in the design community. It would be like stealing from Tobias Van Schneider or something. You can't get past people in the know.

Re: Take me as an Intern – 19yo student seeking internship

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post #55

Brilliant work. I wish I had your skills at 19. The photography and design mesh perfectly well together. I bet you will have no problem getting to the USA to study and work.

As long as you have enough money to pay tuition without scholarships (and paying the non-resident rate)... sure!

Being sarcastic here, finding a job (or studying as an undergraduate) in the U.S. as a foreigner unfortunately has very little to do with skills. Unless you have something very unique that a company decides to seek you out for!

Re: Take me as an Intern – 19yo student seeking internship

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post #33

Since he's from Slovakia, does he have the visa status to work in the US? Will a startup go through H1-B process for a summer intern? Also, if he doesn't go through the formal visa process and tries to do his summer internship with a visitor visa, he may be banned from the US for 10 years. Given that he's publicly publicizing coming to the US to work, it would be very easy for USCIS to block his entry into the US.

He doesn't say that he wants to work in the US though, or maybe I have missed it.

But there are some pretty cool startups in Europe too, and given that Slovakia is part of Schengen he wouldn't have any problems with the visa if he were to work in Europe.

Re: Take me as an Intern – 19yo student seeking internship

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Did you steal some of that code from Visual Idiot instead of creating your own version? http://www.hostmeinca.com/assets/js/animated-background.js http://vaguelyexciting.com/js/site.js Edit: Thanks HN; I wasn't aware the code was from Codrops. Move along, folks, nothing to see here. Sorry dude! Nice site. Don't go for an internship though. You command an escalation of experience that opens doors to regular full time…

I want to see how he approaches this. Since this site is about him and "his" work.
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