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Comment by brm | Hacker News Reader

Random aside but this seems like a decent place to ask it...

Does anyone know what's going on with the Startup and Innovator Visas? Most of the endorsing bodies don't even have a process set up yet and the ones that do only endorse their incubatees or make you subscribe to their accounting services.

Anyone have any insight? Are any endorsing bodies actively approving Startup and Innovator visas? If I'm an entrepreneur with £50,000+ to invest in my internet startup and I want to locate it in London and I don't want to go through Techstars, what is supposed to happen? Because as far as I can tell, the process of bringing a startup to London is currently very broken. /endrant

But seriously? Anyone have any success or advice?

Boris has made it clear that they want the UK to move to an Australian style points system for immigration. And then having the Startup/Innovator visa on the side. The problem is that (a) existing startup visa is terrible which gives you a hint that they just don't get it and (b) how are you supposed to attract non-UK talent ?

There have been truly scary immigration incidents at the Home Office e.g. Windrush which doesn't give anyone confidence that they particularly care what happens to immigrants. And we are seeing the same pattern now with Brexit where they were looking to bargain with citizens rights.

Dude, don’t... the whole visa sector is being overhauled as part of Brexit. You likely won’t get any clarity for a year or more, and if you do there is little guarantee that it won’t change in 12 months time.

yes. here's an overview: https://www.gov.uk/start-up-visa

you can go through the steps and find out more.

here are the bodies that are endorsed for this type of visa: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/endorsing-bodies-...

this might change after leaving the EU, but the requirements will most likely be reduced if anything.

Looked into this in detail recently.

There is no volume of applications atm but it is possible.

Can connect you to a colleague who did the research —- thruflo at gmail.

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