At 300k the O-1 visa should be doable. Peter Roberts, an immigration attorney for SV startups that did an AMA here a few weeks ago seems to be able to do them.

At 300k the O-1 visa should be doable. Peter Roberts, an immigration attorney for SV startups that did an AMA here a few weeks ago seems to be able to do them. Here is a blog of someone who went through the process as essentially a glorified programmer[0] Either way I'd rather not keep a broken system just because it works some of the time. 80% of H-1B use the lower 2 pay tiers, so your 300k programmer is an outlier when it comes to H-1B. [0] http://www.dirkdekok.com/2013/08/my-o1-visa-story-and-how-it-almost-killed-my-startup-mobtest/ http://www.dirkdekok.com/2013/08/my-o1-visa-story-and-how-it...