Folks looking at this may also be interested in similar visa programs offered in east/southeast asia for context: Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Taiw

Folks looking at this may also be interested in similar visa programs offered in east/southeast asia for context: Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Taiwan. Singapore's requirements strike me as especially conservative in comparison (five years leading a co with $30M raised, and that's just one of the "two of three" reqs). I'd also look at the local tech ecosystem before applying -- Twitch is shutting down in South Korea in 2024 due to sender-pays "network usage fees" in the local Telecommunications Business Act. Also there's legacy technology (esp for online banking) that depends on Internet Explorer and ActiveX due to a home-grown encryption standard built in response to US Export Controls limiting 1990s browsers to 40-bit RC2/RC4, so Windows is still the predominant desktop operating system there.