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My view of this is that it is intended as humor and is kind of tossing out the idea of "surely, there must be some sort of hack available for the visa problem". I was hoping it would inspire serious discussion of that piece of it rather than having people focus on the part of it that looks to me like it is tongue-in-cheek. (I get that kind of reaction a lot myself, which is sometimes frustrating, so it's possible I am projecting rather than being insightful.) Serious discussion of immigration options would be an interesting discussion to me. Busting people on the idea of "you can't be really serious about this" is pretty meh.

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>"surely, there must be some sort of hack available for the visa problem".

it is simple - a PAC and a fund paying for the PR and lobby to change the law. Until there is no money interested in solving the problem ...

Though if you look here http://www.h1base.com/visa/work/H1BvisaCapH1BquotaSystem/ref... - this year half H1B quota is still unused, so i'm not sure that there is really that big of a problem to be solved.

Some nationals (China, India, etc...) may be in for a long wait at the final stage of the process - actual GC or adjustment once the petition is approved. It has nothing to do with being entrepreneurial or religious immigrant - it is about officially regulated racial makeup of allocation of the GC numbers and thus it is completely different problem. EDIT: strike the last one. It has been long time since i looked at it - http://www.hooyou.com/visabulletin/index.html - looking at the "Current" even for Mexico and Philippines it is obvious that the religion does also have the preferential treatment here as well (and numbers taken from one category usually decrease the numbers available for other categories).

This isn't really going to move the tongue farther from the cheek, but here goes:

Why not a mail-order spouse programme for founders? Surely there must be a lot of Americans, especially with the financial crisis, who would be willing to take a bet on a founder's future income in exchange for a green card. You could make proposal pitch decks with Lessons Learned from previous marriages.

And if it doesn't work out there's always Series B.

Unfortunetaly a.f.a.i.k. you need to be in a relationship for two years in order to apply for a greencard, but I love the idea of a russianbrides.com for entrepeneurs :-)

I have thought about making the kind of joke you are making but I am female in a 98% male forum and I think it would be put me at risk of being taken seriously and getting unwanted emails. Besides, my post-divorce relationship history has been dominated by foreigners so I would hate for such a joke to come back to bite me should I, in fact, happen to marry a foreigner. I would hate for such a joke to get turned up by immigration and used as evidence that it was merely a green card marriage.

In all seriousness, I always find these discussions about immigration baffling in part because my dad was career military and so was my ex husband, so I have known a great many people who immigrated to the US by marrying a soldier (mostly foreign women marrying American men). In some cases, there was a lot of paperwork and all that, so it wasn't always smooth and easy. But I have spent most of my life surrounded by immigrants who never dealt with the types of immigration issues that routinely get discussed on HN. I know someone who wants to immigrate and I find myself frustrated with not knowing how to help them because this type of immigration is so alien to my life experience and I just don't know where to begin. Some part of my brain cannot comprehend why on earth this should be so hard. It so doesn't jibe with my personal experiences.

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