I have searched YC and got following links<p>http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=158969<p>http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4408<p>But none of them has comments from actual people who has done it.<p>If any of you guys who has already attended YC please respond back<p>1. What visa do i need to get if my intention is only to be here for 3 month duration to attend the YC program<p>2. If i want to stay back after 3 months, Which Visa should i get<p>I know YC do not help with Visa. Wished they had collected the details from other founders (and how they did it), and posted it for the rest of the world.
Ex YC, Please step up and help. I know so many people like me who need a light in this direction. the number of upvotes i got (never got for so many for any of my previous posts) proves this. Perhaps this could be the best help you could ever do to a would be YC :)
(I don't really have any expertise in this, this is mostly what I've heard on the grapevine)<p>I don't believe you can attend YC while on an H1B.<p>Typically foreign YC participants use a B-1 or an equivalent visa waiver to take part in YC.<p>For staying afterwards the typical approach seems to be to get your startup to sponsor you for a H1B or an L-1 visa, but I believe this is only really a feasible approach if your startup has raised a VC round and has multiple founders.
do from YC till fund raising under visa waiver program. Don't get a B-1 because you'll probably get rejected and this raises lots of suspicion whenever you enter USA in the future as you have to declare it.<p>If more than 2 co-founders and you all have degrees, get H1Bs.<p>If less than 3 co-founders or no degrees, crush it some more and get O-1.<p>If you have not raised significant (eg: $1M+) capital by demo day you will not be able to get a visa, go back home, iterate, come back under VWP when you can raise capital, then get visa. It is a tremendous stress.