I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

Re:I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for... by planck1 on Friday August 25, 2017 @12:46PM (#15099953)

Hi Peter, thank you so much for this! I have questions about the O1 visa.

1. If a startup sponsors an O1 for a founder, will there be any issues with 1/ the O1 founder having the CEO title 2/ the O1 founder owning between 30-50% equity in the company? Is it effectively the same as if I was on a green card?

2. If the startup that sponsors the O1 substantially pivots to a new idea, what are the implications for visa status? Does it require an entirely new application?

Thanks so much!

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Re:I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for... by proberts on Friday August 25, 2017 @01:04PM (#15100165)

Regarding your first question, both are generally non-issues. Regarding your second question, the answer depends less on changes to the company's business model or more on changes to the O-1's job duties but generally a new O-1 petition shouldn't be required.

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