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by bitL 2766 days ago
Why not EB-visa though? H1B is completely useless or even dangerous for startup founders. It's easier to live in e.g. Canada and incorporate in Delaware, than work in the US as H1B and be prevented from incorporating anything, effectively ending up as a high-performing slave wasting best years on somebody else's success.
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there is no EB-visa, only EB green cards. But you need to get H1B first before you can jump through the EB hoops.
> there is no EB-visa

Citizenship and Immigration Services thinks there's 5 different subcategories of them.

https://www.uscis.gov/working-united-states/permanent-worker...

> only EB green cards.

Nope, Green Cards don't have categories, they require you to be currently admitted in an immigrant visa category (EB-1 through -5 qualify, as do a number of others, but not H-1B or other non-immigrant visas.)

> But you need to get H1B first before you can jump through the EB hoops.

No, you don't.