I was flipping through a magazine the other day and came across an interesting article regarding how states will be much more stringent on granting H1-B visas to immigrants to ensure that companies are hiring U.S. workers.
For example, you can’t pay them less then a U.S. worker and you have to lay out exactly what they’re doing and how they qualify more than any U.S. worker, so on and so forth.
However, the U.S. has a lesser known type of visa known as the O-1 visa. This thing is referred to as “the genius visa”, and all it takes is to prove that this singular person has a skill set that no one else in the world, let alone in the entire United States of America has.
This O-1 visa is completely removed from any political debate going on in the U.S. government between Republicans and Democrats.
I know what you’re thinking, “what the hell does this discourse on immigration and business have to do with sports?”
Well, one of the few people who happen to have one of these “genius visas”?
Yup, you guessed it, Dirk Nowitzki. Other athletes who have qualified for O-1 visas? Wayne Gretzky, Ronaldo, and Annika Sorenstam
