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So if I, an Irish citizen, founded a company with Americans employed or on the board I can apply to stay beyond my holiday visa? Will be pitching like mad at Y

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• bahman2000 15y ago
  I don't think your holiday visa is H1-B. This deal is for existing H1-B visa holders.
• pbiggar 15y ago
  Not exactly, but broadly yes. You have to go back to Ireland to trigger your H1B. (Also, and I think you aren't suggesting this, but never ever ever overstay your holiday visa, or you'll be banned from getting a US visa for 3-10 years).
• vidarh 15y ago
  Careful. There's a wide range of activities you're not allowed to take part in on a holiday/tourist visa, and so you want to make very sure that there's no appearance that you did business in the US (such as work on a startup) while in the US as a tourist. Meetings are ok, AFAIK, as long as they are not for productive work, with some further caveats. Not that I want to dissuade you from pitching, but be careful there's nothing there to give the wrong impressions if/when you do decide to apply for a H1B.0 Not a lawyer, but I did get extensive coaching from an expensive immigration lawyer a few years back on what I could do (and how to describe it to US immigrations) while in the US, as I was traveling over every 2 months for meetings while we applied for a H1B, because immigrations understandably started asking more pointed questions when they saw my passport was full of stamps from the same US airport (never had a problem and they were always courteous, just probing more about my reasons for coming).