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Nice idea. Feels like a version of the E-2, brought in line with the new realities of the cost of starting a web based business - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E2_visa (government is always slow). Rather than requiring applicants to bring monetary capital into the country, they'd be required to bring start-up capital, as measured by those who will invest in it.


My E-2 interview (at the US embassy in Singapore) is scheduled at the end of this month.

Cost me more than $6K (in attorney fee, etc) and countless number of hours to prepare all the documents without any guarantee that I'll get it.

It _is_ more scary than applying to YC, now good luck to myself.


The problem with both the E1 and E2 is also the list of 'treaty nations' you need to be a member of. For example, India is not on the list


I actually am in the US on an E2 visa, and I founded and (still) run entp.com. In my mind, the investment requirement of the E2 merely is a way of your providing proof of your ability to achieve success.




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