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Check this out if you're doing immigration.

Right now, individuals wishing to immigrate to the U.S. to invest $1 million or more in a U.S. business and generate employment for at least 10 U.S. workers can apply for this category of visa. However, it doesn't apply to the entrepreneurs who want to create those businesses - only investors with sufficient capital to contribute. Might be useful for cps though, or something.

"How palatable would such a program be politically? U.S. Representative Jared Polis (D-Colo.), himself a former entrepreneur, is developing legislation to make it easier for foreign founders of investor-backed startups to secure visas to remain in the U.S. On the other end of the political spectrum, even Newt Gingrich, the Republican former Speaker of the House, has blogged about the need to make the country "more accessible to skilled immigrants." He wrote this after witnessing "the dynamic entrepreneurial and high-tech business culture in Tokyo, Beijing, and Seoul"-countries with which we are competing for top talent. Representatives of both ends of the political spectrum can agree on this issue."

Relevant to startup visa topic.