Excellent guide; shame the situation sucks. The H-4 & O-3 mean that I have these options: - Work at a US startup, marry my girlfriend, she has to be a non-work

Excellent guide; shame the situation sucks. The H-4 & O-3 mean that I have these options: - Work at a US startup, marry my girlfriend, she has to be a non-working housewife - Work at a US startup, live the rest of our lives in a long distance relationship - Move to work at a big company like Google (not my scene at all) where I could get an L-1 (which has a good spouse visa) - Go for an O-1 or H-1B & hope that my girlfriend can get one in the same batch. - Just give up on the idea of living in the US I love California; wish it wasn't so hard for me to live there :(