Last week TechStars London was approved for the UK Entrepreneurs' Visa. If you are accepted to TechStars London, you now automatically get the UK Entrepreneurs' Visa.


As you likely know, I've been advocating for something like this in the US since 2009. Fred Wilson wrote a good post yesterday on the current state of Immigration Reform in the US which includes a summary of the recently introduced comprehensive immigration reform bill. It includes a bunch of things I've advocated for since I started paying attention to this in 2009, including a Startup Visa and a STEM Visa (or - in my language - "a Visa stapled to the diploma of every college graduate.")

I hope we finally get something done in the US. In the mean time, Canada and the UK are being very forward looking about their immigration policy in the context of immigration. The US doesn't have a monopoly on innovation - it's time for us to get our act together on the immigration front. In the mean time, TechStars London applications are open!

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