An infographic created by immigration blog Migreat shows which countries around the world offer entrepreneur visas, as well as lists the requirements a person or a company has to meet in order to attain such visas. The infographic looks at the general requirements for entrepreneur visas in countries like Canada, Chile, and the United Kingdom – a total of eleven countries. Looking at the infographic, it seems that startups that have already received a decent amount of funding fare better at being granted entrepreneur visas; many countries, for instance, require that companies already received funding between $40,000 and $100,000. On the other hand, countries like France and Chile don’t require that startups have raised previous funding and, rather, provides startups with monetary grants alongside their entrepreneur visas. Not surprising for a country like Chile, which just earlier this month announced that its national startup accelerator, Start-Up Chile, would be making follow-up investments to its alumni startups; indeed, looking at the guideline, it seems that startups can only qualify for the Chilean entrepreneur visa if they get accepted to Start-Up Chile. There are a few other notable things to point out in the infographic. Remarkably, unlike all the other entrepreneur visas granted to startups, Canada’s offers permanent residency – something that isn’t at all provided by any other country’s. And, more importantly, the country’s flexible immigration system makes it much easier for startups to hire immigrants – something that is desperately lacking in the United States. Speaking of America: it’s not listed on the infographic. That’s because our country doesn’t yet offer any kind of entrepreneur visa; however, it should be noted that President Obama announced last November a plan for a startup visa (but, really, all we can do is hope it’ll actually happen, right?). Check out the full infographic from Migreat below:
