Interested in a company that would be a one stop shop for H4 visa holder???

Hi All
I am new to this forum. Read through the posts and found it very interesting. First let me given bit of intro. I am a guy (hopefully guys can post in this forum:) currently living in princeton area. I have been in US for around 8 years. Got married about 3 years back. Wife came as a H4 visa holder and you all have the first hand experince of how frustrated she might ahve been. I was trying to help her find something to keep her occupied and searched the internet like crazy. Did'nt find anything useful. We were so frustrated we though of going back to India. However after brief stints as babysitter, volunteer and going to millions of career fairs and tradeshows, my wife finally got her EAD when I was able to apply for my i485 last year.

This whole ordeal got me thinking that we should do something about it. Me and another friend from my MBA class came up with an idea of starting a company that would cater to H4 visa holders. Specifcally this company would be a one stop shop for all your H4 issues such as
1. Educational advice
2. Career counselling
3. Cooking, Shopping, Lifestyle consultant
4. Volunteer matching
and so on

Also the company would orgainze events such as Diwali, Holi, Durga Puja, career fair, picnics etc using everybody as volunteer providing great management experince to H4 holders.

The company is still in paper and we are trying to get some feedback
We would really appreciate if you all could provide any feedback as to is the idea a total dud, do you prefer some other service ..etc.
Thanks much

Hey this sounds like a very good idea....wishing you and your team good luck....

Hi,

I am myself on H4 here, ur idea is sounds brilliant. I lok forward to ur plans going live. I am sure it would benefit a lot of us and rescue us from drowing into depression of sitting alone at home .

Cheers!
All the best!

Pallavi!

Originally Posted by virgo_mc

Hi All
I am new to this forum. Read through the posts and found it very interesting. First let me given bit of intro. I am a guy (hopefully guys can post in this forum:) currently living in princeton area. I have been in US for around 8 years. Got married about 3 years back. Wife came as a H4 visa holder and you all have the first hand experince of how frustrated she might ahve been. I was trying to help her find something to keep her occupied and searched the internet like crazy. Did'nt find anything useful. We were so frustrated we though of going back to India. However after brief stints as babysitter, volunteer and going to millions of career fairs and tradeshows, my wife finally got her EAD when I was able to apply for my i485 last year.

This whole ordeal got me thinking that we should do something about it. Me and another friend from my MBA class came up with an idea of starting a company that would cater to H4 visa holders. Specifcally this company would be a one stop shop for all your H4 issues such as
1. Educational advice
2. Career counselling
3. Cooking, Shopping, Lifestyle consultant
4. Volunteer matching
and so on

Also the company would orgainze events such as Diwali, Holi, Durga Puja, career fair, picnics etc using everybody as volunteer providing great management experince to H4 holders.

The company is still in paper and we are trying to get some feedback
We would really appreciate if you all could provide any feedback as to is the idea a total dud, do you prefer some other service ..etc.
Thanks much

Hi Saahithya and Pallavi_an
Thanks so much for your feedback, We really appreciate it. I will keep on updating everybody on our progress. We are currently working on the business plan and would be put it infront of venture capitalists in December. If things work out we would have something by early next year.

Virgo_mc

Hi Everybody

Need a huge help from you all. If everybody could fill out this survey, it would be a great help for us. It is just 10 questions, really basic ones such as "age group", "how long in the us" etc.

Each response is valuable and it will make our case stronger infront of venture capitalists. To access the survey just click on the link below.

H4U

Thanks so much

Hi All
If you all could fill out the small survey that I have posted, I would greatly appreciate. The progress on the venture is going well. We showed our plans to social venture experts and they seems to like the idea. Will keep you all posted about the progress

Thanks
Regards
virgo_mc

Hi All
For all those of you who have completed the survey a BIG THANK YOU For those of you who havent got around doing it, PLEASE do it as ti give valuable feedback for us

Regards

virgo_mc