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Comment by jlangenauer | Hacker News Reader

There is the Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) visa, though it's not at all straight-forward - you need £200k investment, or £50k under conditions that I'm not sure it's possible to actually meet.

https://www.gov.uk/tier-1-entrepreneur/overview

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Right, just a 200k investment :) This belies a very specific view of how enterpreneurship works. Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple... none of these companies would have met a similar requirement in their times. Furthermore, by the time most people have 200k to investment a business they're likely to have settled in a geographically locked private life.

So how do you suggest they tell someone is really an entrepreneur? Genuine question.

£200k is not a very huge amount of money by London standards. Maybe fully loaded cost of 2 senior developers for a year, if you get creative making it stretch.

Any threshold below that would effectively be a open doors situation.

It's not like in the US it would've been much easier for a foreigner: for an E2 Visa you're expected to have 100k-150k$

I'm not discussing the US? I'm expressing my hope that the UK returns to its more sensible pre-2010 highly skilled migrant policy.

Sure, I completely agree with the sentiment.

I just pointed it out since you used 4 US companies as examples, and I thought you could be implying that it could be easier to start a company there for a foreigner.

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