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Comment by emmapersky | Hacker News Reader

Its a shame the startup visa won't cover STEM graduates from non american schools.

You'll be able to get in through funding. Believe me, Startup Act 2.0 isn't Startup Visa Act isn't IDEA Act. There's a whole spectrum of potential implementations of the solution.

I've put together a coalition that's building the next bill. Note that acquisitions aren't taken into account in the current bills. It'll be fixed.

We've been going through some iterations within political space. No more press releases, starting today, game on for startup visa.

I remember seeing that the UK gave visa preferences to people with MBAs from certain top american schools. I wish there was something equivalent in the US for technical people (e.g. people with a masters/PhD from a top 20 non-us school). There are current solutions but none support someone doing a startup.

Too many Congresscritters scared of something like that being used to hack the system. It's going to be American schools-only, if we can pass anything at all.

And yes, current solutions are pretty awful. I detail some hacks here though: https://www.quora.com/Blueseed/Are-there-any-interim-solutio...

More and more founders are looking to O-1, especially if they can raise a round, putting them in the top few % of all 'startups,' including mom and pop shops, but damned if I'm explaining Steve Blank's segementation of the new business market to USCIS.

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