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There is the Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) visa, though it's not at all straight-forward - you need £200k investment, or £50k under conditions that I'm not sure it's po

• ryanjshaw 12y ago
  Right, just a 200k investment :) This belies a very specific view of how enterpreneurship works. Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple... none of these companies would have met a similar requirement in their times. Furthermore, by the time most people have 200k to investment a business they're likely to have settled in a geographically locked private life.
  • berdario 12y ago
    It's not like in the US it would've been much easier for a foreigner: for an E2 Visa you're expected to have 100k-150k$
    • ryanjshaw 12y ago
      I'm not discussing the US? I'm expressing my hope that the UK returns to its more sensible pre-2010 highly skilled migrant policy.
      • berdario 12y ago
        Sure, I completely agree with the sentiment. I just pointed it out since you used 4 US companies as examples, and I thought you could be implying that it could be easier to start a company there for a foreigner.
  • hcho 12y ago
    So how do you suggest they tell someone is really an entrepreneur? Genuine question. £200k is not a very huge amount of money by London standards. Maybe fully loaded cost of 2 senior developers for a year, if you get creative making it stretch. Any threshold below that would effectively be a open doors situation.