Continuing our series of country guides, we’ve put together a list of helpful links for those of you considering a move to the United States 🇺🇸.
Here we go:
✅ DESTINATION RESEARCH
🪪 Visas: https://relocate.me/visas/united-states + https://manifestlaw.com/blog/types-of-work-visas-us or the official Visa Wizard tool to help you determine which U.S. visa category best matches your purpose of travel.
Popular searches:
• O-1 visa (a relocation path without an employment offer)
• H-1B visa (an employer-sponsored work visa)
• L-1 visa (an employer-sponsored intra-company transfer visa, often used by multinational companies to relocate employees from an overseas office to the United States)
• TN visa (a work visa available to eligible Canadian and Mexican citizens)
🧾 Taxes: https://relocate.me/taxes/guide/united-states
💵 Take-home pay calculator: https://relocate.me/taxes/calculator/united-states or https://www.smartasset.com/taxes/income-taxes
🛒 Cost of living: https://relocate.me/cost-of-living/united-state + Numbeo + ask on Reddit (example thread)
🏥 Healthcare & insurance options:
• General overview: https://relocate.me/healthcare/united-states + https://manifestlaw.com/blog/do-immigrants-get-free-healthcare
• First-hand insights: Ask locals and expats on Reddit (example thread)
📊 Average salary data: https://relocate.me/salaries/united-states-average-salary
💻💰 Developer salaries in the United States: Levels.fyi / Built In / Blind + Stack Overflow Annual Developer Survey + Reddit and Quora for first-hand insights
❓ Ask questions about living and relocating to the United States:
• reddit.com/r/MovingToUSA
• reddit.com/r/AskAnAmerican
• reddit.com/r/AskSF
• reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco
• reddit.com/r/bayarea
• reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions (a general Q&A community covering virtually every topic, with questions about the United States being very common)
• reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions (one of the largest software engineering career communities, with many discussions focused on the U.S. tech job market)
✅ JOB SEARCH: U.S. COMPANIES HIRING FROM ABROAD
Here are some U.S. companies we’re aware of that, based on publicly available info (primarily current job descriptions), appear to be open to sponsoring work visas for international hires:
• Anthropic
• Reflection
• Exa
• Retell AI
• Thinking Machines Lab
• Verkada
• Halliday
• AGI
• fab2
• Sim
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July 28, 2026 7.8K 27
