Ask HN: European founders in YC?

In fact there is a kind of UK YC inside YC. The UK guys really stick together and help each other out. If you can get a hold of any of them I'm sure they'll point you in the right direction.

Papers and immigration are always a difficult issue. In most cases you can get a work visa or whatever visa lets you attend conferences in the US and it will be enough for the 3 month YC session.

The blogs in particular may hold useful info for you regarding getting visas and working in the U.S. plus the journey in startup as a whole - I particularly like http://www.kulveer.co.uk and http://blog.harjtaggar.com who are the http://www.auctomatic.com guys as they give a good level of detail throughout their journey.

However, http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/02/coming-to-america-getti... (or http://is.gd/1Vrf in short) by Peter from ClickPass could be what you were referring to and probably holds most of the answers you want in the most succinct form.

Anyway, I'm sure if you contact them they may be answer specific visa questions from their experience. Hope this helps.

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  http://www.auctomatic.com
  http://auctomatic.com/about
  http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kul
  http://www.kulveer.co.uk
  http://twitter.com/kul
  http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=harj
  http://blog.harjtaggar.com
  http://twitter.com/harjeet
  http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pc
  http://www.collison.ie/
  http://twitter.com/patrickc
  [John Collison]
  http://twitter.com/collision
  
  http://snaptalent.com
  http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sharpshoot
  http://sharpshoot.blogspot.com/
  http://twitter.com/sharpshoot
  
  http://www.songkick.com/
  http://www.songkick.com/team
  http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ian
  http://twitter.com/soundboy
  http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=petesmithy
  http://twitter.com/petesmithy
  
  http://www.clickpass.com/
  http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=immad
  http://www.immadsnewworld.com/
  http://twitter.com/immad
  http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=petenixey
  http://www.webkitchen.co.uk/
  http://twitter.com/petenixey
  
  http://webmynd.com/
  http://webmynd.wordpress.com
  http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=amirnathoo
  http://twitter.com/amirnathoo
  
  http://www.scoopler.com
  http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ajmalasver 
  http://blog.projectbluespark.com/
  http://twitter.com/_aj
  http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dilanj
  http://meonearth.blogspot.com/
  http://twitter.com/_dilan

Here was a previous discussion on the topic: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=158969

searchyc.com is your friend.

If it's the other way (in Holland at least) it will be easiest if one of the founders/employees can be recognized as an knowledge migrant.