Sunday, February 28, 2010

The Startup Visa: Create Jobs, Get A Green Card

Other countries have similar plans, sounds like a good idea. Immigrants are often the most entrepreneurial, sad for their country to lose them, but good for the U.S. - - Donna Poisl

Erick Schonfeld, TechCrunch.com

A bill introduced today in the Senate by Democrat John Kerry and Republican Richard Lugar proposes a new type of visa for immigrants who create startups and jobs in the U.S. A similar proposal is part of an immigration reform bill in the House.

The Startup Visa has been controversial and will no doubt draw fire from anti-immigrant forces and xenophobes.
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1 comment:

Unknown said...

This is a great bill - three cheers for Senator Kerry for sponsoring it, as well as Dick Lugar. In my eyes it is a spectacular idea to give green card visas when the result is american jobs being created. My question is why there aren't already more programs such as this one, and why the program has such a small cap on the number of investors.