How to attend YC when you are on H1B

Ex YC, Please step up and help. I know so many people like me who need a light in this direction. the number of upvotes i got (never got for so many for any of my previous posts) proves this. Perhaps this could be the best help you could ever do to a would be YC :)

(I don't really have any expertise in this, this is mostly what I've heard on the grapevine)

I don't believe you can attend YC while on an H1B.

Typically foreign YC participants use a B-1 or an equivalent visa waiver to take part in YC.

For staying afterwards the typical approach seems to be to get your startup to sponsor you for a H1B or an L-1 visa, but I believe this is only really a feasible approach if your startup has raised a VC round and has multiple founders.

do from YC till fund raising under visa waiver program. Don't get a B-1 because you'll probably get rejected and this raises lots of suspicion whenever you enter USA in the future as you have to declare it.

If more than 2 co-founders and you all have degrees, get H1Bs.

If less than 3 co-founders or no degrees, crush it some more and get O-1.

If you have not raised significant (eg: $1M+) capital by demo day you will not be able to get a visa, go back home, iterate, come back under VWP when you can raise capital, then get visa. It is a tremendous stress.

yes please I am interested.