>"surely, there must be some sort of hack available for the visa problem". it is simple - a PAC and a fund paying for the PR and lobby to change the law. Until

>"surely, there must be some sort of hack available for the visa problem". it is simple - a PAC and a fund paying for the PR and lobby to change the law. Until there is no money interested in solving the problem ... Though if you look here http://www.h1base.com/visa/work/H1BvisaCapH1BquotaSystem/ref/1568/ http://www.h1base.com/visa/work/H1BvisaCapH1BquotaSystem/ref... - this year half H1B quota is still unused, so i'm not sure that there is really that big of a problem to be solved. Some nationals (China, India, etc...) may be in for a long wait at the final stage of the process - actual GC or adjustment once the petition is approved. It has nothing to do with being entrepreneurial or religious immigrant - it is about officially regulated racial makeup of allocation of the GC numbers and thus it is completely different problem. EDIT: strike the last one. It has been long time since i looked at it - http://www.hooyou.com/visabulletin/index.html http://www.hooyou.com/visabulletin/index.html - looking at the "Current" even for Mexico and Philippines it is obvious that the religion does also have the preferential treatment here as well (and numbers taken from one category usually decrease the numbers available for other categories).