Your first international hire, without building a program

What the big-company machinery exists for

H-1B programs: LCAs, prevailing wages, files, renewals, audits. That is the machinery of being a petitioner. The agent-based O-1 removes the reason for the machinery — the petition is filed by an authorized agent, so there is nothing on your side to industrialize.

The whole process, startup-sized

1. Paste the role — or the GitHub profile of the specific person you have in mind, if you already know who you want.
2. When a candidate fits, send the one-page letter. Your outside counsel reads it in minutes; there is nothing else for them to run.
3. Petition and itinerary happen on the candidate side. Premium processing: 15 days.
4. Hire a work-authorized person on your standard offer letter.

What it costs a seed-stage budget

The platform side: nothing, with no card collected. Your counsel's hour to read a page. That's the program.