Caleb Watney, Doug Rand, and Lindsay Milliken of the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI) and the Federation of American Scientists have urged the Biden administration to ‘revive’ the US start-up visa. Under former US President, Donald Trump, legislation for a start-up visa was repeatedly delayed.
Following years of debate, the Obama administration issued the International Entrepreneur Rule (IER), which means that a US start-up visa could bypass Congress as it would not be subject to the time-consuming rulemaking process because the IER has already ‘navigated that maze’, according to the PPI. The trio of PPI workers said: “Instituting a start-up visa would give US innovation and competitiveness a huge boost.”