It'll take you two minutes. Copy the contents of http://paulgraham.com/foundervisa.html and paste them on http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/.<p>Provide your our comment, attribution, message, etc if you want. Maybe if enough of us do it, someone will read it.
The one issue I have with the essay is how startup investors are chosen. "We know who one another are" is an unsatisfactory way for the government to decide who startup investors are, mainly because it could become a closed club very easily.
I agree with Paul Graham completely. I wish there was some kind of founder VISA. I am graduating from penn state with a PhD. I have started my own startup which is developing educational apps for iPhone, android, desktop and web, but I am going to have a hard time staying back in US. I dont need to be present in US to run the business but I would prefer and wish there was something like a founder VISA for legitimate companies making more than $200k an year.
Nothing against folks outside the U.S. that want to work here. But, I have not seen any real evidence that supports a skill set shortage. Can someone provide real numbers?