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How to get an internship in a startup if you are not from America?

4 points by loglaunch ↗ HN
I am currently in my final year of a computer science degree in Ireland. I will be finishing college at the end of May. I would love to join a startup on an internship for the summer.

The problem is most web startups are based in America. Would it be to much trouble to hire someone from Ireland? How should I go about it?

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noodle
visa and legal requirements might not be worthwhile for an american company to hire someone who doesn't already have a visa. its not free, and it takes time to happen
loglaunch
It would be pretty easy for me to get a J-1 visa, which would allow me to work for 4 months. I had one for the summer of 2007. The requirements are that you are going back into education at the end of the summer or that you are just after finishing final year.

Would there be any other problems, apart from visa's?

noodle
cool. i'd think that all other issues would be case-by-case instead of general.
lsc
eh? if you find a startup that works remote ( I know PG doesn't like it, but it does save a lot of time and effort, and really opens up the number of applicants) you can avoid all the visa bullshit. <p> even if you want to come down here, other than visa bullshit, it should be easy for the startup company. The big problem right now is that with the economy how it is right now, I'm getting experienced and good people for intern prices, but that doesn't really have anything to do with where you are from.
[dead] PENIS
Learn english you foreegn jackass! America has enough problems before you ass comes here and takes all our jobs.
palish
Disclaimer: the above opinion is not representative of most Americans.

... at least I hope it's not. Not me, anyway.

unalone
PENIS is a troll. Ignore him.
palish
Yeah, I was mainly clarifying for loglaunch and all of our other non-American HN brothers that America is not such a stupid, evil place as some people make it out to be. It seems like many people think it is, and I really can't blame them. There are plenty of stupid and evil places in America of course, but there are also a lot of excellent and insightful ones.

That said, be sure to avoid PENIS's trailer park.