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With $2.1m in funding, I suspect it might not be too hard to get E2 visas. (non-resident visa for the purpose of managing an investment in the US) They also rec
by pmjordan 14y ago
With $2.1m in funding, I suspect it might not be too hard to get E2 visas. (non-resident visa for the purpose of managing an investment in the US) They also recently relaxed the rules on self sponsoring H1Bs if the company has enough cash. Not that I can speak from experience.
I'd love to know what kind of requirements for the O-1 visa apply in the context of our industry, as that seems the strongest visa of them all by far. I assume nobody can talk about their experiences publicly as the whole process goes through immigration lawyers and I guess immigration aren't going to be too pleased with publicly available "instructions" on how to legally enter the country, either.
- excuse-me 14y agoThe height of the goalposts seem to change with the market. In the last dot-com bubble my UK PhD supervisor was offered head of physics dept at an IVY league school. He couldn't get an O-1, he was told that "a Nobel prize would help"
- pmjordan 14y agoThose are some pretty high goal posts. That would mean a quota of 10-15 per year. Aside from the celebrities-du-jour who of course never seem to have trouble getting them.
- petercooper 14y agoDavid Heinemeier Hansson got in on an O-1 quite early on in the life of Rails. I think he had just won an award from O'Reilly for best person in open source 2005 or something like that. I know of two other people personally who've gotten O-1s after having tech books published with major tech publishers (coupled with the high salary requirement and other minor community fame, of course). But we're not talking Nobel Prize levels of fame here.