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Fred Ng: The Einstein Visa, Getting Paid Before Building Anything & Letting AI Do the Paperwork - E736
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Most founders who come to Beyond Border assume a US work visa works like an ESTA: fill in a form, get an answer in 48 hours. Frederick Ng, its co-founder, explains why a good O-1 process takes about three months and a 700- to 1,000-page petition. He joins Jeremy Au to cover the O-1 and L visas for founders and their launch teams, why a spouse's work rights often decide the visa, and how executives tied to an employer-sponsored green card can move to the EB-1A. He also walks through how Beyond Border separates human judgment from AI-assisted case...
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in the first week without a website without any 10 minutes. Within the first month, we got on a call with a Swedish entrepreneur. He's raised 50 million US dollars and he needed to move to the US to build a geothermal plant. And within 10 minutes, he wired us US dollars.
And so I don't know, I looked at each other and we're like, oh wow, there's something here. Visas obviously are a problem, right? We spoke to about 6,000 founders in the last year. 55% of them don't know what an OA visa is, let alone the different visa types.
So what's your approach? Hello Fred, good to see you. Great to be here Jeremy. Yeah, I'm excited to have you on the show because you're talking about immigration to the US,
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