3 ms·
As a tech entrepreneur and global itinerant, I'd love immigration laws around the world to be more lax, but please... "One of the 20 Hot Silicon Valley Start
by todsul 15y ago
As a tech entrepreneur and global itinerant, I'd love immigration laws around the world to be more lax, but please...
"One of the 20 Hot Silicon Valley Startups You Need to Watch"
If this were true, I think there'd be more of a case. But remember there are other people in this world aside from tech entrepreneurs. Some of them are in pretty horrid situations and seek asylum.
Assuming the US has an intake quota and that intake quota is divided between reasons for immigration, then proponents of the Startup Visa are petitioning that other seekers of asylum or immigration take a back seat. I absolutely support this to an extent, but do we want them to deny all non-tech immigrants for every kid with a website?
At what point does a startup deserve to take someone else's place in the queue. And I'm well aware that politicians hate to concede there's a queue, but of course there is.
- HistoryInAction 15y agoActually, there's a bunch of 'visa slack,' since the 10,000 limit for the EB-5 investor visas generally only sees 1-2000 successful applications. What the primary Startup Visa bills call for is to take those unused EB-5 visas and make them available to founders. The argument is that sweat equity should be equivalent in some way to cash money investment, which is what the EB-5 represents.
- sandieman 15y agoWhen? How about when he went to Stanford.