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USCIS Introduces Entrepreneur Pathways Website

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) recently announced that it has launched a website geared towards providing potential immigrant entrepreneurs with a general overview The website, Entrepreneur Pathways, does a good job describing the general process for obtaining an employment-authorizing visa, and gives a general list of the visas possibly capable of use by …

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Start Up Visa Remains Stalled In Senate

The “start up” visa – a visa that would provide immigration status to individuals creating American jobs – remains stalled in the Senate. The delay is reported to be due to Senator Grassley’s continued concerns with the immigration agency and its adjudication of immigration petitions.

According to sources, if the legislation does not come up …

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State of the Union: Obama Concedes to No Comprehensive Immigration Reform This Year

Immigration garnered a mere paragraph or two in President Obama’s State of the Union on Tuesday night. Given the scope of the topics discussed during the speech, it wasn’t expected that immigration (or any other subject) would garner much more than a few moments of focus.

However, what was surprising about President Obama’s immigration comments …

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Keeping Immigrants At Sea

Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs are pursuing a “you-can’t-make-this-up” hack to the notoriously difficult U.S. immigration system.

In an attempt to allow more foreign nationals to contribute to Silicon Valley, a group is seeking to buy a cruise ship and convert it into a floating campus of entrepreneurs who will live on international waters off the coast …

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USCIS Quickly Changes Course When ABC News Gets Involved

A couple nights ago ABC News ran a report about how the creator of CruiseWise.com was denied a visa even though his company had been named one of the “20 Hot Silicon Valley Startups You Need to Watch,” and had hired nine Americans (and expected to hire many more in the near future).

The reason …

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National Interest Waiver for Entrepreneurs

The United States has long been the land of opportunity for ambitious individuals who could make it big with a little bit of smarts, elbow grease and luck. Yet, the United States has no entrepreneur visa. Instead, entrepreneurs are often forced to fit their ambitions into the confines of visa categories that don’t really fit. …

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Startup Visa Reintroduced Into Congress

The much talked about Startup Visa has been reintroduced into Congress. The Startup visa was first introduced in 2010, and needed to be reintroduced following the January change in Congress. Whether the Startup Visa will gain any traction is yet to be seen. Congress does not currently seem interested in improving America’s much maligned immigration …

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Is Government Oversight Standing in the Way of the Startup Visa Success?

The Startup visa, which has been discussed previously, would allow for the expansion of the EB-5 visa category to include more foreign national entrepreneurs to come to the United States and start a company that would create American jobs.

However, one of the bills in the House that would create a Startup visa has drawn …

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How Easy Is It To Get A Visa As An Entrepreneur

Is there a need for immigration reform? Isn’t it easy to get a visa as a smart, young, go-getting foreign national? Surprisingly, many believe that it is easy to get a work visa in the United States if you are smart enough. As the video clip below illustrates, that isn’t the case.

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Techies Want Startup Visa

Last week, The Startup Success Podcast interviewed Eric Ries of StartupVisa.com about the techie communities grassroots effort to create a visa explicitly for startup founders. In the rather lengthy interview, Eric Ries discusses the impetus behind the visa, the obvious need for the visa and his experiences discussing the visa with influencers on Capital Hill. …

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