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> Same with many top professors, researchers and tech execs like Nadella, Gundotra, Pichai etc.And many people on this list too like the inventor of USB etc. S

by ori_b 11y ago

> Same with many top professors, researchers and tech execs like Nadella, Gundotra, Pichai etc.And many people on this list too like the inventor of USB etc. Some of them might have, but the H1B is an awful avenue for this. You are not allowed any side businesses while you are employed on an H1B visa (and you can't be self employed using it). If you are Indian, you are looking at what is currently an 11 year processing delay before you can get a green card, not counting the time it takes to get your H1B initially. If you're from other countries, the backlog is shorter, but it is still multiple years before you can leave your company to try self employment. Assuming you get approved for a green card. It's possible to get an H1B and then get denied for a green card. Academics and other similar figures of note can already apply directly for a green card, which I suspect many of the people on this list have done. If you want to expand immigration, a simpler, faster path to permanent residency is essential.

klipt 11y ago
> If you want to expand immigration, a simpler, faster path to permanent residency is essential. Comprehensive immigration reform was supposed to do that, adopting a more streamlined points system like Canada and Australia, but of course the bill ended up covering amnesty for undocumented immigrants too and the whole thing got shot down. Unfortunately for most people an H1-B is the best path to a green card, and only once you have a green card are you free to be an entrepreneur etc.
- ori_b 11y ago
  Yes, as a Canadian working in the USA on an H1B, I am painfully aware of this fact. The point remains: Increasing the number of H1Bs will not have a great impact on the number of founders, especially not in the short term, because the vast majority of them will end up shackled to an employer for years.
  - davidw 11y ago
    The real reform would be to unshackle H1B's. Sadly, in today's political climate, I don't think that's likely.

by ori_b 11y ago

klipt 11y ago

> If you want to expand immigration, a simpler, faster path to permanent residency is essential. Comprehensive immigration reform was supposed to do that, adopting a more streamlined points system like Canada and Australia, but of course the bill ended up covering amnesty for undocumented immigrants too and the whole thing got shot down. Unfortunately for most people an H1-B is the best path to a green card, and only once you have a green card are you free to be an entrepreneur etc.

ori_b 11y ago
Yes, as a Canadian working in the USA on an H1B, I am painfully aware of this fact. The point remains: Increasing the number of H1Bs will not have a great impact on the number of founders, especially not in the short term, because the vast majority of them will end up shackled to an employer for years.
- davidw 11y ago
  The real reform would be to unshackle H1B's. Sadly, in today's political climate, I don't think that's likely.