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How about giving you a deadline to actually create a business, maybe with some threshold of employment, revenue, cash, patent, or other tangible sign of value c

• yardie 16y ago
  And then what? Most people seem fixated on the problem of getting visas into the country. That's not the US governments problem. Their problem is once you're here you won't leave. This is how people get caught up. An immigrant comes in on a tourist visa, stays, decides to get a low paying job and now is stuck because clearing immigration means you won't be allowed to come back ever again. So you get one of these visas, deadline comes and you've got nothing. So you stick around and become one of the millions of illegal immigrants. Deportation is a long, expensive process and the US taxpayer would rather not have to do it at all since it's very dirty work.
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  • shykes 16y ago
    An interesting approach would be to 1) facilitate incorporating and running a business from abroad 2) allow short business trips for business owners 3) once business reaches a threshold, grant a special visa 3)
    • yardie 16y ago
      But they already have that. They are investor visas and the only requirement is you have a large ($million) wad of cash and no criminal record.
      • shykes 16y ago
        [...] the only requirements is you have a large ($million) wad of cash Precisely.