As someone pointed out recently (sorry, can't find the original blog post) this sort of plan really skews the power dynamic between the entrepreneur and VC/ange

As someone pointed out recently (sorry, can't find the original blog post) this sort of plan really skews the power dynamic between the entrepreneur and VC/angel. If you really make this visa contingent on funding, then in addition to having the power of the purse, the VC will have the power of immigration. One solution, of course, is to make it independent of funding, but then distinguishing between "founders" and "people who want to move to the US and might one day start a company" gets pretty hard, policy-wise. Now, I have no particular aversion to the latter group either, but plenty of Americans apparently do. The real answer, as many have suggested, is to fix immigration policy rather than carving out exceptions for our preferred niche. Edit: found original blog post referenced above - http://kirkwylie.blogspot.com/2009/09/founder-visa-ignores-immigration.html http://kirkwylie.blogspot.com/2009/09/founder-visa-ignores-i...