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O1 isn’t that hard with a good immigration lawyer. It’s about checking boxes, not extraordinary talent.
by dannyw 3y ago
O1 isn’t that hard with a good immigration lawyer. It’s about checking boxes, not extraordinary talent.
- jonny_eh 3y agoThey just need the guts to do it.
- hasty_pudding 3y agoif you're not hacking the immigration system, are you really an engineer??
- neuralengine 3y agoIt is a system with a feedback time of months-years. At these time horizons, you can’t do rapid iterations, and you have to be extremely risk-averse. The system is also indeterministic so not conducive to hacking.
- shutupnerd0000 3y agoYou missed the joke
- dannyw 3y agoYou can get an O1 in a couple weeks with premium processing. Pretty sure you also get a rubber stamp if what you’re doing is AI/ML related.
- wslh 3y agoA friend of mine is an actor, not famous at all but was given this visa. Not and engineer at all but has some type of hacker mind: really stubborn and being resourceful in some scenarios.
- skynetv2 3y agoYou are very much mistaken. I have seen someone go through this and it is very hard. You need to prove your contributions to an area of interest to the US, and that it meets the extraordinary qualification. It is ok to not know but maybe dont make such statements.
- epcoa 3y agoWell I do know, and I have close associates with very mundane qualifications, masters from non T50 school in a CS related but not CS field, working for non-FAANG large corporation as "senior" (think 2-3 yr exp) IC with good legal of course that obtained an O-1. I also know those with T30 masters degree, much more impressive on paper but working for at the time some dumb startup that were denied. They are now doing something extraordinary outside the country. Sorry but the definition of extraordinary qualification is very capricious to make the claim about it being "hard" a bit meaningless. There are a lot of factors, but it isn't necessarily hard to obtain.
- elevatedastalt 3y agoI mean you are literally commenting on a thread about a blog post where someone got it despite having any "extraordinary ability" in the generally understood sense of the term.
- AlexeyBelov 3y agoWhat's the generally understood sense? To me it's extraordinary because it's above what I'd consider ordinary. Let's say most people have Bachelor's and can't (or won't) start their own business. If you have someone with a Master's and also a startup owner they are extraordinary by that definition. The USCIS has a much more concrete definition with different parameters. Is it an ideal one? No. But I guess any new improved definition still won't be universally accepted, especially by other talented people.