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> I am trying for EB-1 but even with my background it will be difficult.

If you have probed this possibility already, what is the evidence that speaks against you reaching EB-1A status? I assume making three out of the ten categories won't be problematic, but I myself am unclear about qualitative judgments in totality.

What I do know is, that the many EB-1 grantees from any YC batch were decimated to 50% sometime around 2014.

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thanks @alex_hirner. I have applied for EB-1 EA. Doing whatever I can to get it and will find out the result next year.

However I have significant resources at my disposal right now, which many other entrepreneurs wouldn't have - supporting the point raised by Vivek Wadhwa. If I had a Green Card, I wouldn't have sold to Dropbox and would be doing running a startup right now :)

Didn't quite understand your last line. Did it mean that 50% of YC batch applicants for EB-1 got it?

Thanks once again!

An E-2 investor visa could also do the trick in case of affluent resources. I wouldn't know about limits on the controlling stake though.

> Did it mean that 50% of YC batch applicants for EB-1 got it?

That was unclear of me. Actually, the ratio of granted vs. rejected applications dropped by around 50% (from a discussion in Feb this year). Thus, I don't know how many applied for in total in a typical cohort.

Indians aren't part of the E-2 treaty.

Based on your last line, I guess number of granted have gone down.

Doing all I can to get EB-1 EA. Let's see how it goes.