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I think you guys are missing the point. I know he normally is in favor of H1 but not this article.

He mentions two mains things in his post: 1. Give a path of Green Card to entrepreneurs.

2. Do not bound h1b employees to current jobs. Right now US is allowing quasi slavery by bounding workers to their jobs and making it really difficult to switch. If employers couldn't enslave h1 workers it wouldn't be economically viable for them and they are get lot less h1 workers.

I have worked at startups all of my career, built the biggest social network to come out of India, built another startup, sold it to Dropbox, currently head the innovation group at a Fortune 15. All I want to do is build startups. But on H1 I can't hold majority stake in my own company, and because of my previous experience I don't want to do a startup again on h1.

It will take me 20 years to get a Green Card on EB-2. I am trying for EB-1 but even with my background it will be difficult. If I don't get a Green Card by next year I will move out of US.

I am also discouraging any Entrepreneurs I know in India against a move to US.

I sincerely hope that the situation improves.

> I am trying for EB-1 but even with my background it will be difficult.

If you have probed this possibility already, what is the evidence that speaks against you reaching EB-1A status? I assume making three out of the ten categories won't be problematic, but I myself am unclear about qualitative judgments in totality.

What I do know is, that the many EB-1 grantees from any YC batch were decimated to 50% sometime around 2014.

thanks @alex_hirner. I have applied for EB-1 EA. Doing whatever I can to get it and will find out the result next year.

However I have significant resources at my disposal right now, which many other entrepreneurs wouldn't have - supporting the point raised by Vivek Wadhwa. If I had a Green Card, I wouldn't have sold to Dropbox and would be doing running a startup right now :)

Didn't quite understand your last line. Did it mean that 50% of YC batch applicants for EB-1 got it?

Thanks once again!

An E-2 investor visa could also do the trick in case of affluent resources. I wouldn't know about limits on the controlling stake though.

> Did it mean that 50% of YC batch applicants for EB-1 got it?

That was unclear of me. Actually, the ratio of granted vs. rejected applications dropped by around 50% (from a discussion in Feb this year). Thus, I don't know how many applied for in total in a typical cohort.

Indians aren't part of the E-2 treaty.

Based on your last line, I guess number of granted have gone down.

Doing all I can to get EB-1 EA. Let's see how it goes.

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