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Hi Peter! I work for an American company and we have a distributed team of developers around the world (India, UK, US) and we don’t know if it’s legal for us to
by botverse 5y ago
Hi Peter! I work for an American company and we have a distributed team of developers around the world (India, UK, US) and we don’t know if it’s legal for us to come together for a week or two in the states, to plan, bond but also work?
Thank you so much for your contributions.
- yen223 5y agoI have found that arranging an interview for the B1-2 visa (which is needed if you're not from an ESTA country, and India is not) is dang near impossible now.
- satya71 5y agoInteresting. My company is in the immigration space and we were considering a product to help distributed remote startups to organize group "off-sites". If you'd like, please reach out on the email in my profile.
- proberts 5y agoAbsolutely, it's done all the time. They would come here as business visitors with B-1 visas or with their passports if they are from a visa waiver country (such as the UK). But so there are no issues and no lines are crossed, when they are in the US, they shouldn't be compensated (paid their hourly rate, for example) although their expenses can be covered.
- biztos 5y agoI can’t comment on the legality, but when I was in a penny-pinching org in a big US company we just did these things outside the US because it was cheaper. COVID notwithstanding, UK might be a good option for you.