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- vote Blind Visa Poll Lets see what proportion of blind belongs to what visa categories
- How to sell apps on google apps store for TN Visa Holder Anyone on TV visa, making app and sell on apps store? I was told that, only if you're GC holder you can do that. Anyway to do it legally? thanks #TN Visa
- Do i need visa to sell app online? my wife is on TD visa. can she start business by selling app online? Physically present in USA. note: TD visa is whose spouse is on TN visa.
- Best Stock Trading App for H1B visa holders Robinhood GME fiasco was the final nail in the coffin for me to finally move away from the app for any serious investing. Exploring alternatives which allow me to keep the stocks for long term investing (5+ years) even if I choose to go back to home country after spending few years in the US. I ha
- App that matches US citizens and people with expiring visas? I have friends that are getting deported for not getting to renew their H1B. Is there an app that get people to marry for visa?
- vote What is the blind work visa population? just curious
- vote How many on blind are on a Visa How many on blind (willing to respond) are on H1, L1, GC, outside of US, US Citizens
- Got a dream job and visa. thanks Blind ❤️❤️❤️ recently landed to the new position at the company I really love. and got an o1 visa. thanks to blind. cant imagine that without all the info you guys shared here. best community ever ❤️ tc: 142k base + 400k in stocks with 4y vest (and due to current valuation) + 12k relocation bonus + all the res
- Canadians of Blind, what US companies will sponsor visas for Canadians without a degree? I know Amazon will, what other big companies will sponsor you? I'm not looking to move now but I most likely want to work in California some day. Blind tax: 350k CAD TC #visa #tech #canada
- Anyone on blind community applied for Portugal Golden visa? Experience? #investments #pr #europe #citizenship
- TN Visa: How to respond to legally US work questions on job apps? As a Canadian with TN visa eligibility, how do you accurately answer the following questions on job applications knowing that it’s slightly different than an applicant without North American citizenship? 1. Are you legally authorized to work in the U.S.? (No) 2. Will you, now or in the future, req
- Anyone got receipts for EB2 to EB3 and AOS under OCT/NOV Visa bulletin? If so, where &when uscis received app! #workvisa #h1b #visabullein #eb2toeb3
- Hello Blind, I would like to know if we can do day trading in addition to full time job in work visa. I understand you can buy/sell stocks , can I do that 7 days in addition to day job Tc :320k #personalfinance #investments #workvisa
- vote [Google India] I'm a new grad. Experienced folks here at blind, which bank should I opt for opening my salary account? I'm looking for something which has everything online, less hassles, decent interest rates, good perks and nice accessibility. TC: 32
- Advice from the rich: Pay bump. How to manage taxes for 600k tc I got a big jump in my tc from 200k to 600k for the coming year. Looking for advice from the rich folks on blind on effective ways to save taxes. I’m on a visa. Don’t own a home. Lords of blind, please help. Edit: thank you for the comments and guidance rich lords of blind. Please keep them coming.
- vote NO INDIANS policy for jobs? Given how difficult it is to get H-1B (488k apps this year) and the GC backlog for Indians while other nationals can easily get their GC while on F-1 OPT/STEM, will companies just flat out start rejecting Indian candidates because of the immigration mess?
- How to grow money with this awful stock market and growing inflation? It’s an unpleasant phase but if you have recommendations for stocks that are performing well even in this dumpster fire stock market then lmk, pretty please? Please don’t say real estate. I only have a YoE. Plus I’m single and on visa. Blind TC - 150k base
- vote Hating H1b Visa holders Lately, there have been a lot of hate spreading towards H1b Visa holders on Blind. Mainly because of several posts due to H1b application deadline and a few updates. For starters, I would break H1b Visa holders to two groups. 1] H1b Visa directly with a company (Google, Apple, startups and the lik
- vote Picking between Google, Meta and Uber in different countries Hey all, I'm currently in the offer/negotiation phase with Google, Meta and Uber I've received L4/SDE2 equivalent with Google and Meta, and L5a at Uber Google is in Bangalore. Meta is in Toronto. Uber is in Amsterdam. I am currently in India. My goal is to move to the US in one year. Getting to
- Visa inc reviews Hello, Currently interviewing with visa inc but the reviews on blind are really bad. Is visa that bad? WLB seems good, low stress,good job security. Apart from low tc anything bad there? TC:80K #tech #visa
- vote Poll - Choosing between Google, Uber and Meta in separate locations Hey all, I'm currently in the offer/negotiation phase with Google, Meta and Uber I've received L4/SDE2 equivalent with Google and Meta, and L5a at Uber Google is in Bangalore. Meta is in Toronto. Uber is in Amsterdam. I am currently in India. My goal is to move to the US in one year. Getting to
- 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩This is why Amazon has more PIP cases than Facebook 🚩🚩🚩🚩 Facebook has a similar toxic culture. Similar bad wlb and similar stack ranking.. Bottom 10-15% get 15% MM rating. And 2 back to back MM ratings means PIP. So why noise only about Amazon and not Facebook. While Amazon does have PIP Quotas it's mainly because a lot of Amazon's employees are people o
- Visa application help Hey all, Does anyone know what is a “EAD for OPT time” on my visa app and how do I get one ? Thanks
- Visa staff or Facebook E4 Currently I am senior engineer at visa, now I got an offer from FB London for E4 and my manager is talking about my promotion to Staff engineer ( I didn’t mention I had another offer yet) What should I do ? Join Facebook : I believe get good technical learning, hands on implementation and large s
- H1-B visa stamping in Canada Hi Blind community, has anyone gotten their visa renewal/stamping done in Canada recently? Any issues? I have an appointment in July.
- Any EU company that sponsors visa? Hi blind, I am currently in the US (non green card holder unfortunately) and getting tired of waiting for it. I am currently exploring other countries which are more immigrant friendly and I was mainly looking at the UK/Amsterdam. Do company sponsor visa for those countries? #visa #europe #swe #
- Travel while On Stem OPT with approved H1B ( eff Oct 1st) Hello Blind Community, I have a query around travel. Can I travel to India after H1-B is approved and return before Oct 1st 2022? Tentative travel plan: July 1st to July 30th 2022. PS: I will be on STEM OPT during that period. Thank you!
- H4 EAD unemployment benefits I am on H4 visa, and new to blind community. Does anyone know if H4 visa who has EAD is eligible to get Pandemic related benefits? Thank in advance.
- H1B lottery is a joke and defies common sense : A rant I personally lost all 3 H1B attempts during my OPT. Luckily I had a PhD and my citation count helped me secure an O1 Visa in 2021. This system is just ridiculous. The lottery for the year is done and dusted and only one of my 10-12 friends who were applying this year got it. I also got to know that
- Any traction on Meta's Perm issue? I still hear things at Meta are stuck and Perm filings havent moved further. Is this something to consider when joining Meta? Are people on visa avoiding joining? And any timeline when things will resolve? Blind tax: 250k #tech #meta #facebook
- H1B1 visa Hello Singaporeans and Chileans of Blind. What were your experiences with working in the US with a H1B1 visa? If you have held other visas (eg H1B/L1), how would you compare the H1B1 sponsorship process with those? Tc 🥜
- H1b's are eligible..? Can employee on h1b visa develop apps outside company work/schedule with personal spare time and submit to App Store to earn money? Other example: can make $$ by posting courses in Udemy to teach? I want to know whether it's legal to have income source other than employer who sponsored h1b visa. T
- Can h1 holder invest in Acorns? Hi, I am on my H1 visa. I wanted to invest in Acorns app. Is this app only for American citizens? Or anybody can use it?
- 221G for an O1 Visa application I got a fricking 221 G for an O1 visa application. 125 citations and 50 peer reviews. The email reads "Your case requires additional information to continue processing. Please provide the information outlined in the attached file." Blind Tax : 330 K
- Monetize app on H1b? Hello, can one monetize an app while on a work visa? TC: 125k yoe: 2.5 #workvisa #h1b
- Sr Product Manager VISA pay Hi Blind folks, I have currently received a Sr product manager role with VISA on the tech side. Would anyone have an idea on what components of TC I could ask for and what the total TC looks like? Blind Tax TC 240k YOE 7 #visa #product #pm
- vote Do you still feel welcome in the US? Honestly, it's bizarre, empathy clearly is something that is lacking and the amount of racist commentary spewed on blind is staggering...which made me wonder if those on a visa ever felt truly welcomed here. I have felt & experienced nothing but support from my American co-workers when i went throu
- Investing in Stocks while being on H1B visa. H1B visa folks are you investing in stocks? If yes please share which brokerage firm, app you are using.
- Sending money to India on F1 How much money can I send to India on F1 visa status? Does the $14k gift tax apply to F1 visa? Apart from Remitly, which app do you use to send money? I've hit my limits on Remitly.
- Need Referral help , Layoffs 🙏 Hey Folks, I need your blessings and help Due to wrong decisions by the executive board in the company, we lost major clients in the last few weeks and my manager have given a verbal conversation today that in the next 3 weeks Product Team will be going out. I am on an h1b visa and need to find a
- vote Why no PIP/Fire posts from Facebook/Meta ? I understand that Amazon aggressively puts around 10% into focus, and PIPs 5%. From what I know even Facebook has an aggressive policy towards low performers/lowly ranked people. Facebook might even be directly firing people without even focus and PIP. Why then is Blind full of Amazon shit stories,
- How to know my TC (Total compensation) Hi everyone, I am new to blind. I see that everyone is posting their TC (Total compensation). I am a L4 Sde at Amazon starting working here since last 4 months and currently on OPT How do I calculate my TC?
- Looking for referrals to top tech companies in Europe Hi, I'm looking for referrals across top tech companies in Europe. I've already got Facebook, Apple, Google, Meta, Paddle, Snowflake, Plaid covered. Looking for referrals across other companies. #coinbase #snap #databricks #visa #wise Open to other suggestions across Europe. Blind Tax, TC: 40Lakh
- link Name and shame companies asking for Green card processing payback costs I recently learned that Bloomberg asks for Green card processing fees to be paid back (about $20k+ amount) Let's name and shame the other companies I worked at eBay and PayPal, these two companies don't ask you to payback. Let's name and shame the other companies Source for Bloomberg: [Blind] C
- Requesting Referrals Hi Blind Community, I am requesting referrals from the following company Google, Atlassian , Salesforce, Stripe, Uber, Doordash, LinkedIn, Twitter, Airbnb, Visa, Twillio, eBay, Tesla and any other similar companies Thanks Tc: 130k Yoe: 3 #LinkedIn #twitter #uber #airbnb #google #doordash #atlassi
- link Who are these business analysts and software engineers making $1.3m-2m a year!? https://news.efinancialcareers.com/us-en/3003798/highest-paying-h1b-visa-salaries-denied Is this for real? Such people actually exist!? Is any of them on Blind?
- Cold feet moving to London Hi Blinders, I've received an offer from Meta, London. I have accepted and also started with the visa process. FB paid for the visa application and I'll have go to the embassy in couple of days. And now I'm getting second thought about moving to London. What would happen if I tell my recruiter tha
- H1b transfer question I am in the middle of switching employers and the visa transfer will be inititated next week under premium processing. was wondering if i got laid off before the transfer is complete then would that count unemployment days under new petition or old? Also can that result in withdrawal of offer ? Bl
- Non-Profit health organization : performance/quality improvement (or similar) roles Asking for my fiancé. She has completed Masters in Public Health and almost done with MBA (Day 1 CPT). Unfortunately for all the roles she applies to, the organization were not sponsoring H-1B visa. She is looking for program manager/ quality improvement/ performance improvement/ coordinator/ proj
- PM referrals in London Hi guys, I’m moving to London in a month and am looking for PM referrals. I have a dependent visa (I’m on my gf’s visa) which gives me full right to work. Thank you in advance Blind! YOE : 4 (3 sales, 1 PM) TC: € 45k