It would be great if YC expanded to the Asia-Pacific region... somewhere easy for Aussies to reach/apply/interview like Singapore.
YC Interviews in India
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Re: YC Interviews in India
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SV is ground zero and probably will be for some time, but the forces of present immigration climate are unlike it has ever been in the past, and I wouldn't be surprised if it topples SV's position as the innovation hub in the near future. In the past, immigration was a minor barrier comparable to other barriers founders and innovators face regularly, but one that needed to be overcome. Today, especially with the free…
The immigration situation for skilled/educated workers, has to my knowledge, always been extremely bad in the US. Right now, it's gotten worse to another level, but it's not like it was anywhere close to good before. There is no founder visa. A few rare people (including you) have managed to get the O-1 visa; but that's usually an extraordinary difficult endeavor. Even getting a new H-1B is incredibly hard, with your…
Getting an O-1 and EB-1, rather than being some extraordinary feat, is more of an extraordinary distraction, and yes luck factors into it a lot.
My understanding is if you tried to immigrate 8+ years ago, it was relatively certain and less of a distraction, even if it still took ~12 months to be done. It has gotten gradually harder every year, until it went up asymptotically in 2016 (I finished applying for my EB-1 in 2015).
Unfortunately IANAL + immigration landscape is evolving constantly, + the complexities and options of immigration vary wildly with the differences in personal circumstances (from passport to education and work history), so anything I write will be quickly obsolete, and most people would find it either too generalized, or not applicable to them.
Feel free to DM me, I'm happy to share some advice with anyone who thinks immigrating will be important for their career.