You are not relevant anymore, there are not a lot of stupid guys to pay you and 3500 for a signel bedroom in that bug infested thing you call Silicon Valley.
We are waaay smarter to avoid parasites like you.
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
#92Hi Peter, I'm a Canadian citizen with a four year computer science degree. I've gotten a TN work permit twice, with two different companies over the past three years. If I started a company with an American citizen and they opened it up, could they then hire me as a Computer System Analyst? Is there a minimum salary they'd have to pay me (e.g. could I get a TN and still only get paid $10/hour)? Is this a common way f…
I'm not the OP, but as I understand it a founder of a company would be eligible for immigration on an EB-5 visa. From this website ( https://www.uscis.gov/green-card/green-card-through-job/gree... ), they would be eligible if they plan to create/preserve 10 jobs and invest $1m (or $500k in a "targeted high employment area". This is pretty similar to most developed nations--provide enough investment money and you can immigrate without much question.
Re: I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
#93I read recently that the Opt period is being extended. If I was on opt for undergrad, am I still eligible if I decide to go to grad school?
Re: I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
#94I'm an English programmer working in the UK for a site owned by, via another company, a very large privately owned US company. I have a child and a partner I am not married to. I have no criminal record.
I'm unsettled by the brexit, and am considering a US move - if my company's parent wants to take me on how difficult is the immigration process likely to be?
Re: I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
#95Hey Robert - My Question: What do you think would happen to tech in America if H1b's were done away with and all foreign workers had to leave?
Not Robert (and I defer to anything he has to say) but I teach a class that uses the LCA [H-1B] visa application database as a test dataset. If you banned all H-1Bs today, you would effectively be losing approximately half a million talented workers. Now, some would like to argue that this would "free up" half a million jobs for U.S. citizens, but keep in mind that the H-1B is for skilled labor that an employer could…
> but keep in mind that the H-1B is for skilled labor that an employer couldn't find a citizen for at a price they were willing to pay
Trust me, there are a lot of abuses of the H1B program from "main stream" tech companies.
Re: I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
#96Hi Peter, First of all, thank you very much for doing this. My questions are about the USA Diversity Lottery ( https://www.dvlottery.state.gov/ ), as I rarely see any discussions about it: - Out of all the people you have seen who obtained a green card, roughly what is the percentage of them getting it through the lottery? - Roughly how much time and money would the process cost? (I would assume it's similar to the ~…
I recommend browsing official DV statistics [1] to see more detailed data. Unfortunately, there are only lotteries which has ended.
[1]: https://travel.state.gov/content/visas/en/immigrate/diversit...
Re: I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
#97Hi Peter, I'm a Canadian citizen with a four year computer science degree. I've gotten a TN work permit twice, with two different companies over the past three years. If I started a company with an American citizen and they opened it up, could they then hire me as a Computer System Analyst? Is there a minimum salary they'd have to pay me (e.g. could I get a TN and still only get paid $10/hour)? Is this a common way f…
Also curious about this.
Excellent and important issue. Ownership in and of itself is not a bar to TN classification - to be a bar the ownership is supposed to rise to the level of controlling - but USCBP (at the "border") and even USCIS sometimes (and more and more) take the position that it is or conclude that if one is a founder or has an ownership interest, one is a "manager" and not an "engineer" and therefore ineligible for TN classification because there's no NAFTA occupation for managers.
Re: I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
#98You are not relevant anymore, there are not a lot of stupid guys to pay you and 3500 for a signel bedroom in that bug infested thing you call Silicon Valley. We are waaay smarter to avoid parasites like you.
I don't know anything about this topic, but I do know that this is probably not an appropriate response on HN.
Re: I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
#99Hi Peter, First of all, thank you very much for doing this. My questions are about the USA Diversity Lottery ( https://www.dvlottery.state.gov/ ), as I rarely see any discussions about it: - Out of all the people you have seen who obtained a green card, roughly what is the percentage of them getting it through the lottery? - Roughly how much time and money would the process cost? (I would assume it's similar to the ~…
In case it's helpful: we have family friends who came on a diversity visa from Albania, and it cost them much less than that. Somewhere around $1500-$2000, with processing time <1 year. The lottery entry has no fee, and, once selected, the various visa fees added up to about $500/person. Their only other expenses were going around getting certified copies of documents, and paying a local lawyer to double-check things.
Re: I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
#100You are not relevant anymore, there are not a lot of stupid guys to pay you and 3500 for a signel bedroom in that bug infested thing you call Silicon Valley. We are waaay smarter to avoid parasites like you.
I don't know anything about this topic, but I do know that this is probably not an appropriate response on HN.
It is the perfect response to anything that starts with "I am Superman..."
You may or may not agree, I do not care.