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There's numerous factual errors in your frankly disingenuous post. This article is about H1B's. The H1B is not an entrepreneur visa, and shouldn't be used to s

There's numerous factual errors in your frankly disingenuous post. This article is about H1B's. The H1B is not an entrepreneur visa, and shouldn't be used to start companies in the US. > A significant amount of the companies providing the jobs All of the statistics I've seen about immigrants starting tech companies deliberately mispresent their claim by including companies with non-immigrant founders. So if there's 3 founders, with only one being an immigrant, then that's categorized as an "immigrant-founded company." In reality, companies hire H1Bs primarily on cost. Otherwise, they wouldn't pay extra fees and immigration attorney costs, now would they?

Barrin92 6y ago
I'm not sure I see the contradiction here. Of course H1B visas are for employees, not entrepreneurs, but many employees don't stay employees forever, entrepreneurs aren't conjured up out of thin air. Just take Uber as an example. That company alone has spawned an entire ecosystem of founders and venture capitalists as talent over the years has migrated away from the company. >So if there's 3 founders, with only one being an immigrant, then that's categorized as an "immigrant-founded company." I don't think that's a misrepresentation, particularly not in the context of my post, because if a company has an immigrant co-founder that still indicates that an immigrant contributed to the founding of a business.
- redis_mlc 6y ago
  > many employees don't stay employees forever Then they would have to return to their country if they're no longer an employee. The path to citizenship for an H1B is over 10 years now.
  - Barrin92 6y ago
    >The path to citizenship for an H1B is over 10 years now. you can already start a business as a green card holder, but yes it takes a while in the current system to obtain the ability to start a company. I don't see however how that relates to the argument. The average age of h1b users is very young (majority between 25 and 34), so they all have a fulll career ahead of them.

Barrin92 6y ago

I'm not sure I see the contradiction here. Of course H1B visas are for employees, not entrepreneurs, but many employees don't stay employees forever, entrepreneurs aren't conjured up out of thin air. Just take Uber as an example. That company alone has spawned an entire ecosystem of founders and venture capitalists as talent over the years has migrated away from the company. >So if there's 3 founders, with only one being an immigrant, then that's categorized as an "immigrant-founded company." I don't think that's a misrepresentation, particularly not in the context of my post, because if a company has an immigrant co-founder that still indicates that an immigrant contributed to the founding of a business.

redis_mlc 6y ago
> many employees don't stay employees forever Then they would have to return to their country if they're no longer an employee. The path to citizenship for an H1B is over 10 years now.
- Barrin92 6y ago
  >The path to citizenship for an H1B is over 10 years now. you can already start a business as a green card holder, but yes it takes a while in the current system to obtain the ability to start a company. I don't see however how that relates to the argument. The average age of h1b users is very young (majority between 25 and 34), so they all have a fulll career ahead of them.