<p>Yeah I doubt that there would be any trouble with the visas in the UK. You have a valid point about not restricting myself to Wall St., as I don't really have any good reason for doing that. I am still a beginner at this stuff so I guess the image and prestige still matter too much. Now I just have a huge spark for the US, but perhaps after 4 years of stay I will be more interested in working somewhere else. But are the hours really better outside Wall St? Because for me (and probably for most other people too) the biggest drawback of IB is the quantity of weekly hours. I am still hesitant about spending the last years of my youth working 16 hours a day, no matter what the compensation is.</p>
You wanna do an investigation on H1 visa bearers?
You'll see if I'm right or not.
There are much more H1 visa bearers from large companies than smaller companies.
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That's because companies have to do a lot of paperwork and pay a fee (not sure about this one though) in order to file a visa (H-1) application for you. Big companies have the means to do that while many smaller ones don't. That's why most people on H-1 status work for a big company...it's still a lottery though, and once your application is filed, everything depends on luck.</p>
<p>@Fin
I'm not sure about the hours, that's just what I've heard (please note that i said "better hours" and not "good hours" ;)). Maybe nauru knows more about this..</p>
<p>^ USCIS tends to trust larger companies much more and gives them more opportunities , because many smaller company recruiters' stats are fake and some of them applied for H1 primarily just want to attain the legal status of staying in the states.
And about the lottery, there is a percentage of H1 visa gainers actually won the lottery. However, there are some positions of H1 visa 'guaranteed' for certain ppl or companies.</p>
<p>Of course. I was actually talking about non-EU people. EU people don't even need permission, they can just show up and stay as long as they want, no visa, no job, nothing.</p>
<p>^oo.. thanks.. so let's say I got a job at a BB in London, I'll almost certainly can stay? How about in other smaller companies? like smaller banks?.. in US, there's the H1, how about the UK?What do we need to go thru to stay and work theree?</p>
<p>That all depends on your circumstances. If you are not from a "hostile" country, you've got a degree (or two) and your employer is willing to incur the costs of vouching for you (time, money and legal services) then you are not likely to have problems. If you get a degree of some sort from a british university then you are in even stronger shape.</p>
<p>After doing some more research on banking, VC seems like the dream job for me, especially tech-related. I heard from someone at the British equivalent of CC that IBanking would not be ideal experience for tech VC, but tech consulting or an operational role at a tech firm instead. Is this how it is? Do I need to have a technical degree in order to be able to have a career at tech VC?</p>
<p>they would like you to have experience in tech startups (like actually starting up multiple companies) then for tech VC so you know what makes a start up good/high chance of success</p>
<p>and you obviously don't need a specific degree to start up a company</p>
<p>Rister, I wouldn't say anything about it if I don't understand.
Someone in my family was gonna apply for H1 visa, and we did the research on it.
And what I don't understand is why you don't believe me.
So whatever... It doesn't seem to be important to me.</p>
<p>But one thing is important: you can not believe everything the government told you. Because what they say publicly is not always true.</p>
<p>I emailed with a FT M&A analyst at GS in London about the industry in general and also about the exit opportunities. Planning your exit opportunities too much is, in his opinion, futile, due to the cyclical nature of the business; the opportunities come when the time is right and sometimes staying at your company can yield the best outcome. He also confirmed what is being said on these forums, at analyst level 100-hour work weeks are completely normal. Though he did add that nevertheless he enjoys the work tremendously.</p>