I'm so glad someone actually investigated this.

Marcus Hutchins :verified:

I'm so glad someone actually investigated this. I've always suspected he was an illegal immigrant. None of his story makes any sense if you're familiar with US immigration. You can't just go to school in the US as a foreigner, drop out, then start a company.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/10/26/elon-musk-immigration-status/

Dr. Robin Farrell :rick: :donor:

@malwaretech Paywall. Urgh.

Marcus Hutchins :verified:

US visas are ridiculously strict and specific. Student visas don't come with work permits or a SSN, so he would not have been allowed to work at all. Also, if you drop out of school (which he did), you lose the visa and have to go back home.

In order to start a company his best best bet would be a H1-B, but there's two problems.

1. The company petitioning for his visa is his own company, which would indicate he'd already been working illegally, making him ineligible for any future US visa.

2. H1-B visas typically require you at least have a bachelors degree, which he didn't since he dropped out.

I'd bet money Elon's two degrees from UPenn are the result of investors pulling some strings to get him admitted into those programs and ensure he'd pass, then someone restructured his company to disguise the fact he'd already been working illegally, so they could have his own company petition him for a H1-B.

Like, this guy wasn't just an illegal immigrant, he'd have had to commit straight up fraud on multiple occasions to have had any chance of getting legal status.

Scott Williams 🐧

@robinfarrell @malwaretech https://archive.is/pAPCk

Scott Williams 🐧

@robinfarrell @malwaretech If you put archive.is/ in front of a news article, you can read/capture an archived version, sans paywall, and also see archived versions between edited updates.