Hi Peter. We spoke by phone last year. I am shifting a venture from China to the US as an Aussie. While things are nominally easy for me, and you raised the int

Hi Peter. We spoke by phone last year. I am shifting a venture from China to the US as an Aussie. While things are nominally easy for me, and you raised the interesting point that spouses are now in a better situation under the Aussie category, I note we are still waiting for a visa interview for my family (Sydney). We intend to complete financing in the US before December then exit and re-enter on new visas with the self-sponsorship route and a good deal of investment in the bank, at which point the various paperwork you advised as supporting (eg. real estate) should be trivial. My question to you is this: how do we speed up the next visa changeover? We will only have 90 days up front. After which, a plethora of initial setup work (equipment commissioning, etc.) needs to occur demanding of presence. I can't afford to sit around this long waiting for bureaucrats again and I don't want to be separated from my family. Can we apply while actually in the US on another visa? Can we iteratively amend an application with new data (eg. real estate, investment agreements, etc.) after it is lodged as this information settles? Or perhaps, is there any way to apply with a business case for expedited processing at US consulates? We are also now looking to bring in a few Europeans with exceptional professional skills in allied areas. What do we need to look out for in doing this and which visa category is the most stable for their application? As a startup are we limited in how many people we bring in? Right now there are at least two. I recall in the past I was on some sort of management-for-new-US-subsidiary type visa (~2010) and this was preferential to the H1 types. Cheers.