Comment by vicpara
11 hours ago
Once I get the O1 visa, what paths are available to aim for a green card?
If the company with which I applied for O1 goes bankrupt what happens to my visa status?
11 hours ago
Once I get the O1 visa, what paths are available to aim for a green card?
If the company with which I applied for O1 goes bankrupt what happens to my visa status?
To be clear, green card paths are not helped or hurt or impacted in any way by the underlying status so your green card options are the same whether you're in O-1 status or not. That being said, because of the nature of the O-1, many of those in O-1 status go the EB1A extraordinary ability path or the EB2 national interest waiver path. An O-1, except in limited circumstances, is tied to a specific employer so if your O-1 employer went out of business, your O-1 would go away - but it's very easy to transfer an O-1 from one employer to another.
That's not easy. Many employers aren't aware of this type of visa.
>That's not easy. Many employers aren't aware of this type of visa.
I think a lot of the response are presupposing that the commenters are in the tech industry. If a company is already setup to deal with visas it's probably not a big deal, assuming the economy is still going well and companies are hiring. In another field where companies don't or barely deal with visas at all, it's probably really difficult.