Chris Messina

Visabot โ€” I help immigrants make America great again!

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Artem Goldman
Wow, thanks Chris! Hi Product Hunters! We're all excited about this first launch. Visabot is a robot helping professionals relocate to the United States. He is not an immigration lawyer, so he is trying to be fast, easy and responsive. He will cover more immigration questions in the future. For now, Visabot can help you prolong you stay in the U.S. for 6 months if you're a tourist . If you're a talented person, Visabot can tell your chances to get a visa for extraordinary people. Please test Visabot and tell us what else you want me to see him doing in immigration, appreciate your feedback! Many thanks!
mahoney turnbull
@goldman_artem This is SOOOooo great!! fighting #thewall till the end. :)
Artem Goldman
@lulfeng Thank you, changed it
Chris Messina
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@goldman_artem congrats on the launch!
Andrey Zinoviev
@chrismessina @goldman_artem Thank you Chris for hunting. Great experience for us.
Vasily Voropaev
Awesome! Amazing!! Wow!!! Really cool!!!!
Andrey Zinoviev
@abbbbram many thanks, Vasily! Happy that you like Visabot
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Dmitry Grigoryev
Good job! :)
Dan Rubins
This is great! There is so much talk/news/misinformation about immigration out there (not just in the US) that we often lose sight that there's also a ton of red tape and people willing to take advantage of those that want to immigrate - VisaBot looks like an excellent way to cut through that. I'll be excited to hear about other countries and visa types.
Dan Rubins
@danrubins (naturally, I'm a fan of AI that solves legal problems)
Andrey Zinoviev
@danrubins Many thanks, Dan. We're truly excited about helping talents and other immigrants around the world and have them enjoy moving between countries rather than suffer from legal paperwork.
Dmitry Dumik
That's great! How did you guys come up with the idea?
Artem Goldman
@ddumik Thanks for asking! Based on our experience of getting O1 visas, we decide to make immigration much easier.
Mikael Yang
F*cking finally! Too bad I already spent the money on lawyers though ๐Ÿ˜ฌ
Pavel Doronin
Very nice bot! Good job guys!
Some Guy
More like "Help tech companies abuse H1B Visas more efficiently!". Before people tell me "but how else will they meet demand for engineers?", I am absolutely for the use of immigration to bring the world's brightest minds to the US, that's the original purpose of H1B visas. What actually happens often though, is that these companies will list a job that requires 20 years experience and offer well below market salary, then throw their hands up and say "no one wants the job, oh well!". They then jump on H1B Visas and underpay/overwork those employees because they know they have no choice, they'll otherwise have to go back home. That's not to say that this is something the Visabot team is responsible to solve. The legislation around these visas needs to be more robust and prevent the abuses I mentioned, as for how, beats me.
Andrey Zinoviev
@ghobs91 glad that we share the same values like fair and transparent immigration laws and supporting government infrastructure ensuring that such laws are applied properly by anyone including the tech giants.
Some Guy
@andrey_zinoviev Absolutely! My parents are immigrants, and I wish something like Visabot existed back when they came here.
Pavlo Kuznyetsov
Hey guys, amazing product. What do you think about Trump's influence in terms of working visas? How serious he is about making it more difficult to get, not to mention even cancel them? Is it sounds realistic? Thanks
Andrey Zinoviev
@pavlo_kuznetsov Hey Pavlo, many thanks! Most likely, Trump will go after illegal immigrants and will probably be very cautious with changes to working visas (H-1B and others) which he as an ex-businessman should value a lot because these very visas are used by his companies to hire international employees and hence be more efficient.
Ram Srinivasan
Great work, guys. I'm my acquaintances' immigration bot, so I can see how valuable this can be. The screenshots on your website have a number of spelling and grammar errors though - do you think addressing those might figure into your agenda sometime?
Andrey Zinoviev
@ram_srinivasan Many thanks, Ram. Yes, that could be the case and we'll certainly have a closer look on our web-site. By now we were focused on the bot.
Ram Srinivasan
@andrey_zinoviev That's great. Do you plan on tackling I-140/I-485 sometime? I know those are massive endeavors :)
Andrey Zinoviev
@ram_srinivasan I-140/I-485 is a major thing. We've scheduled it for the first half of 2017. Will not keep you waiting for long:)
Katya Litvinova Guneri
You guys are really cool! Fantastic idea. All the best!
Andrey Zinoviev
@katia_litvinova appreciated indeed.
Diana Moldavsky
Such a cool bot idea & perfect time to launch. I can see how this can be in demand and solving a problem. Congrats and keep up the hard work!
Andrey Zinoviev
@diana_moldavsky thanks Diana, awesome feedback!
Sophia Aryan
I liked the idea behind the product. I hope that it will help millions of talented people around the world receive their visas much easier.
Tim Raiter
Definitely I will use this solution)
Mike Melanin
I was the client #1! Good luck guys!
Inna Bezugla
Awesome!)
Matt Horton
Maybe don't use that phrase if you want to attract immigrants
Artem Goldman
@mattahorton Thanks! Could you please share why ?
Katherine Chen
very cool! definitely about time to make immigration easier and cheaper in this trump era!
steijnpelle
As a botmaker myself (HealthTap), I have to say: this is a fabulous application of a conversational interface. Well done guys and thanks for the hunt Chris!
Andrey Zinoviev
@steijnpelle Thanks a lot, appreciated.