HistoryInAction

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by HistoryInAction 10y ago
And for anyone interested in the topic, the article is already out of date, as entrepreneurial parole is currently blocked due to a regulatory freeze: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/white-house-orders-i
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Obama’s parting gift to foreign entrepreneurs: A new way to stay in the U.S(venturebeat.com)
9 points by HistoryInAction 10y ago|1 comments
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by HistoryInAction 10y ago
University makes the call. If you're pre-funded, you'll work as a part-time mentor, 8-10 hours a week; post-funded, 100% of your time for your startup which has to move on/near campus. 50-70 days from university handshake to
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by HistoryInAction 10y ago
Depends on the person and their academic backgrounds. The positions are specifically designed so that the students can benefit from that person's specific expertise and experience.
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by HistoryInAction 10y ago
You're thinking of the EB-5 green card perhaps
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by HistoryInAction 10y ago
We're doing strict self-policing so that this isn't the case. While founders are getting their startups off the ground, they're working 8-10 hours a week as mentors at the center for entrepreneurship. It's just too much
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by HistoryInAction 10y ago
You can meet the requirements in the country on the B-1 business tourist visa, visa waiver, or OPT status as an F-1 holder, but to activate parole, you need to do so outside the country. IANAL
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by HistoryInAction 10y ago
That's correct. Not the best branding, but I'm sure the White House did what it could.
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by HistoryInAction 10y ago
I'm Craig, quoted in the article as the executive director of the Global EIR Coalition, which is what Nigel is using and is soon to be in the Bay Area as a visa option. Happy to answer any questions folks have about the cap exemption a
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CUNY Schools to Lure Foreign Entrepreneurs with New Visa Program(nytimes.com)
1 points by HistoryInAction 11y ago|0 comments
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by HistoryInAction 11y ago
He's on Global EIR's legal advisory board, so I'm happy to connect you. I'm at Craig at globaleir org
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by HistoryInAction 11y ago
Concur. Chris Wright down in LA is superb at O-1s, has worked with a lot of founders with positive conclusions. I recommend him highly.
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by HistoryInAction 11y ago
Yep, Craig here with Global EIR. As the other commenter says, research universities use cap exempt H-1Bs for their full-time faculty and also lab technical staff. Now that all of these universities have entrepreneurship centers, certain opt
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by HistoryInAction 11y ago
Two year mandatory return for many origin countries can make J-1 messy. Also, J-1 being run by State rather than DHS/USCIS introduces some extra weird things.
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by HistoryInAction 11y ago
Yeah, take a look at the USCIS Visa Guide: http://www.uscis.gov/eir/visa-guide/ There are lots of different options and none are all that good a fit for founders. If you've got a year advance notice, you can
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New Federalist platform lets [government] agencies quickly launch websites(18f.gsa.gov)
2 points by HistoryInAction 11y ago|0 comments
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by HistoryInAction 11y ago
If you want to be a founder, consider this state level program: http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2015/03/30/cu-boulder-... Various states who have launched or are considering launching have dif
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by HistoryInAction 12y ago
More time for Scrabble, hopefully? ;)
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by HistoryInAction 12y ago
Yep! I came up with that one, at least /grin You start running into various complexity problems with further counter hacks of course :) but institutional investors as LPs with established, credentialed due diligence processes (e.g. Cal
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by HistoryInAction 12y ago
It seems extremely likely that the H-4 spouse EAD (work authorization) change has just been enacted: http://www.regulations.gov/#!documentDetail;D=USCIS-2010-001... It was proposed by the Department of Homeland Security in
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by HistoryInAction 12y ago
Strong suggestions. Re: the one I know the most about, "removing the tie between the sponsoring company and the employee (so if he or she is underpaid he or she can easily switch jobs)" This is partially done already in AC21: htt
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by HistoryInAction 12y ago
It'd be nice. But likely unfeasible politically either from a legislative or regulatory perspective. There are many problems using the H-1B even at a policy level: -Lottery/application in April, don't become active until Octo
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by HistoryInAction 12y ago
That is the exact argument against the H-1B re: "highly skilled" requirement. Code monkeys (as distinct from devs) are a very different fish, but DC doesn't know the difference The counter I'd offer is that you should lo
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by HistoryInAction 12y ago
Right on. The proposal had to be set up to prevent such obvious abuse. One thought was admissions rates, since folks seemed impressed by the soundbite that "YC had a lower admissions rate than Harvard," even leaving aside self-sel
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by HistoryInAction 12y ago
I'd defer to someone like Professors Norm Matloff or Ron Hira on this question. Honestly, I've spent so long trying to keep startup visa out of the H-1B debate that I'm just not that familiar with it. I don't disagree wi
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by HistoryInAction 12y ago
The debate is going on already. Businesses either will or won't be able to buy themselves a self-serving change. But that debate is at a level much higher than that which the startup community can influence. When I say we in this case,
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by HistoryInAction 12y ago
On paper, yeah. In practice, the Kazarian test changes the EB-1A a bit. I'm unhappy to hear that in practice the difference is that significant. Link: http://shusterman.com/extraordinaryabilityimmigration.html
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by HistoryInAction 12y ago
Definitely. Unfortunately, that would either require legislation (and something similar has been proposed for a bit by Sens. Grassley (R-IA) and Durbin (D-IL)) or a very contentious regulatory process. Needless to say, the Infosys and Tatas
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by HistoryInAction 12y ago
Actually, just to clarify some sloppy reporting in the Crain's piece, Gov. Snyder (@onetoughnerd) is requesting 50,000 immigrant visas, aka green cards. Big difference from non-immigrant visas. The specific visa requested is the EB-2,
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by HistoryInAction 12y ago
Technically, that already exists on the EB-5 investor green card, which requires an investment of either $500k or $1M and the creation of ten jobs within two years. Except that the investment is intended to be from the applicant's pers

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