Ask HN: What Visa for a UK team to come to YC?

2 pointsMajor_Grooves4 comments

We're a UK team applying for YC. I'm wondering what visa we would need to work in the US for 3 months and how difficult is it to get?

If we were accepted for YC we would only have just over a month to get the visa.

Have any UK teams here been to YC, Techstars etc.?

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I'm obviously unfamiliar with US job dynamics, but a YC applicant team, if funded, would not arrive in the US "looking for a job"... they would have it (YC helps with paperwors for incorporating after all, doesn't it?)

I'm a EU resident as well, and I'm tyring to apply for this round.

There may be a circular dependency here. AFAIK, to found the company you would already have to have a legitimate visa but to get a visa you would need to already be employed by the company.

IIRC Miguel de Icaza originally came into the US on a tourist visa and thus couldn't be an official founder of Helix Code/Ximian since he didn't have a work permit.

So have there been any UK companies on YC?

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