HACKER Q&A
📣 matteomosca

What’s the fastest way to move and regularly live in California?


I’m Italian. 32yo, software engineer and entrepreneur.

Founder of leva.io and superbuild.io

What’s the fastest way to move and regularly live in California?

If you don’t know, who should I speak with?

Thanks


  👤 quantumofalpha Accepted Answer ✓
Depends. No quick and easy ways without some catches/prerequisites.

Do you have extraordinary academic/artistic/business abilities? That might get you EB-1, EB-2 NIW, O-* visa types.

$900k to "invest" at near zero return? That buys you EB-5 green card.

A year of spare time to study and mid 5 figures for tuition and expenses? You could come do masters then stay work for 3 years on STEM OPT. These 3 years should be enough to get a green card to stay permanently, assuming you weren't born in India/China.

Single? Marry an american. It's quick but can get very expensive in the long term though, California is a forced community property state - your spouse essentially owns half of your income.


👤 water8
Save your money and move to a state tax free state