Finally, a Startup Visa That Works

Re:Finally, a Startup Visa That Works by tghnjtghn on Monday March 14, 2011 @06:28PM (#2324792)

I worked for a european company that had a US sales office. It employed a receptionist and a US sales guy. If we added a cleaner the owner of the company now gets a US passport - was that what was intended?

As it happens the owner currently spends the winter there (in Florida) on a three month tourist visa waiver - I suppose having a startup visa might make getting through immigration faster. He has a house, yacht and private plane parked there as well but ironically couldn't get a US cell phone because he didn't have a SSN

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Re:Finally, a Startup Visa That Works by philwelch on Monday March 14, 2011 @11:31PM (#2325720)

Hang on. No one is talking about automatic citizenship--and that is what a passport signifies. If the owner of your company had a permanent US residency visa, would the US be any the worse off?

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Re:Finally, a Startup Visa That Works by tghnjtghn on Tuesday March 15, 2011 @01:38AM (#2326172)

No not in this case - but the visa is intended to start growth business, not just for people to hire a maid, pool boy and gardener and get a resident visa.

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Re:Finally, a Startup Visa That Works by philwelch on Tuesday March 15, 2011 @11:35AM (#2327951)

If you can generate $100k revenue from your maid/pool boy/gardener business, why not?

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