Hi Peter,
Thank you for your time, I have been in the US for 16 years and stuck on the H1-B-> GC infinite wait list since I am from India. I co-founded a startup that now employs > 10+ U.S Citizens with ~ 1M ARR. Any advice on accelerating my GC application would be immensely helpful
I will write a bigger post later on. But whatever happens do not apply for I-485 till you get your I-140 approved.
I did that mistake and had to leave US recently after my I-140 and I-485 got rejected. Once your I-485 is denied - you can't move to options like O-1, E-2, B1 etc. H1 will be your only option.
As far as chances of EB1-A. If you work in tech and are a startup co-founder, the chances of getting an EB1-A currently are really low. I talked to quite a few top law firms recently - BAL, Wolfsdorf etc, and they all mentioned that tech startup founders are finding it really difficult to get EB1-A.
Two of my petitions were rejected. I had lot of media about me, sold a company, leadership positions in various companies, wrote a book which is part of MBA course, judge at hackday. Apparently that was not enough.
I agree with the ads. I don't see them as being anti-immigrant. It is calling for reforms in the H1B system. We need to reform the visa system and the subsequent GC process. Why do the loud voices on the Left (&the Right) conflate everything with whatever agenda they are pushing. Merit based immigration might help me and thousands of immigrants. In the whole spectrum of immigration issues, there is a sliver that both the left and the right can agree on. Employers viewing H1Bs as lower cost dispensable workers is definitely not desired by both sides. FWIW, I am an immigrant on H1B with both bachelor's and masters degrees from US universities.
"Hire US Workers" doesn't strike you as anti-immigrant?
I don't see this as looking for constructive reform for, as an example, better conditions for H1B residents who have no mobility or leverage. Its saying "Stop H1B and stop foreigners from taking our jobs". If thats not their message, I don't know what is.
Absolutely not, I don't see it as protectionist either. If NYC had a problem with hiring native born New Yorkers because out-of-staters had comparable or better skillsets for lower prices than I would have no problem seeing a subway campaign saying Hire New Yorkers. I think at some level the barrier needs to be higher for out-of-towners wanting to move to a new place so that the city does not become unlivable for the people that have lived there their whole life or generations. The question is what is the right balance. If tech workers are hurting because they are being undercut by foreign labor I think it is unfair to point a finger and call them anti-immigrant when the system is set up in a way that corporations can abuse the system.
Anecdotally I have previously worked at Wall Street banks that used "Body Shops" with fixed term contracts to fill positions that otherwise Americans could fill. It's awesome working with smart people from over the planet, but the system needs to be configured in such a way that it does not undercut American wages. Companies need to be able to seek out specialized talent that they cannot find in their own local market, but it is abused so much that it cannot continue in its current form.
I guess the difference here is our views on tribalism? I don't see people who live outside of my community as "others" who I need protection from. I would gladly earn less money to experience greater diversity and give people outside my community and opportunity to join mine.
I think for me, the line might be around protecting against transience. IF you want to join my community, people who are looking to contribute and leave a lasting impact should get benefits over people who are there to make money and leave. But there isn't really a great way to monitor this.
> I think at some level the barrier needs to be higher for out-of-towners wanting to move to a new place so that the city does not become unlivable for the people that have lived there their whole life or generations
There is such system for cities in China (Hu Kou) and it's a nightmare.
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The announcement itself, of course, will be on topic when it happens, but we can be patient.
> Sure, it travels through space at the speed of light, but it itself is a ripple in the fabric of space
I don't believe that's been proven yet. I was under the impression that this was an experiment to provide evidence of the speed of gravity propagation.
Sure, it's not been actually measured yet, but if it does anything different from that, we would have to do a pretty massive rewrite of several chapters of physics. It's a little unlikely.
That being said, of course, anything could happen. Nature is not bound to follow our assumptions.
