I started this blog to primarily rant about entrepreneurship and technology, however, I have realized as I endeavored further into a career comprising these two domains, without proper legal framework in place entrepreneurial activity is not possible. Since the advent of ".com" based enterprises, International entrepreneurs have been an integral part of the very fiber that defined the the United States' modern innovation industry but over the years they have struggled to make contributions in their fields as it has become increasingly difficult for them to get a visa that can appropriately cater to their legal needs and allow them to pursue business ventures.

In the past, H1-B visas have provided a tenuous yet somewhat walkable path to international entrepreneurs and students who expatriate in the United States, bearing dreams, ideas and hopes, to live and work in this country and take a jab at opportunities that are non-existent in their home countries.

Recently, the grossly disintegrated immigration process of the United States has successfully clogged the pipeline that expats driven by entrepreneurship utilized to obtain a permanent legal status in the U.S.

The cause that comes to surface for this ordeal is the unsophisticated nature of rationing method used to allocate H1-B visas, which has ceased to function as the whole immigration system began to deteriorate. According to current structure, 65,000 work-visas are allocated to undergraduate diploma holders and 20,000 visas are reserved for graduate and Ph.d diploma holders. These allocations are being consumed at much greater rate and have failed to meet the demands of a revitalized, venture capital-backed and entrepreneurship-jacked U.S. economy. Furthermore, the rationing of these visas does not acknowledge an applicant's background, field of study, degree of cultural integration, and country from where the education was obtained as factors of eligibility while being considered for a visa spot. Nevertheless, in reality an efficient and productive worker is the function of these factors combined.

So for my fellow struggling foreign entrepreneurs and 'alien' students, I have curated a list of viable opportunities as published by visanow.com that can be used in case if you are not 'randomly' chosen to be granted an H1-B visa this year.

Click or tap on the blocks for more info.

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Update:

I have recently found that if you have a bachelors degree and a willing sponsoring employer you can qualify for immigration visa under a category called "EB-3". This might not be the most feasible step for all of the applicants as some of the countries have a long que under this category and availing this visa may take years! However, some of the countries under this category are "current". What this means that you can ideally get your green card within an year if you apply under this category and meanwhile you can pursue your masters to keep your student status in the U.S.