Getting into the US - legally!
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Michael Arrington [TechCrunch] wrote a great blog in which he featured Peter Nixey who talks about his adventurous immigration trials or- as he says - “how we brought Clickpass
to California and how a holiday turned into a pitch turned into a company and finally into a successful product.”
If you want to know what choices you have for a visa category and how to master getting into the US, read what Peter describes in:
H1B: Temporary workers and trainees
O1: Alien of Extraordinary ability
E2: Treaty investor
He ends his entry with an in depth account of “the interview” and a summary of the visa process. The way he approached getting his visa was definitely a success.
Here are some last ideas:
“The visa application process is expensive, very time consuming and very energy consuming. It saps time, attention and energy away from the core thing that any young business needs to do which is to grow.There are many companies for whom that distraction simply doesn’t make sense. For us though I have no doubt that it was essential. Only weeks after launch, Clickpass is seeing thousands of registrations a week and the influence, support and partnerships that the company made in Silicon Valley were critical to that early success.”
The whole visa process is a mystery to many people who want to come and work - legally- in the US. I think that Peter’s tale will help answer some of the questions that are hard to get answers to in such an organized and personalized form.
Tags: Clickpass, Michael Arrington, Silicon Valley, TechCrunch, US immigration, visa
