'Dreaming About This Moment': Startup Founder Shares How He Got Green Card After 15 Years

Social media is full of several motivating and inspiring stories. Recently, a startup founder who had always dreamt of becoming a permanent resident of the United States took to X to share how he turned this into reality. Nahuel Candia, the founder of Rebill.com – a payments and subscriptions platform, shared how he managed to get a US Green Card after 15 years. He shared a series of posts on X.

The viral post opens to show three different pictures. The post was shared on X account named @dncandia. Sharing the post, the user wrote, “Today, after over 15 years of dreaming about this moment, I am a permanent resident of the United States. I achieved this through the EB1A visa (Green Card) for noncitizens of extraordinary ability, also known as the visa for the top 1% of experts worldwide.” In the post, the startup founder shared that he started preparing for his dream 15 years ago. “I started programming 15 years ago while in high school. I met Sonia Oster over LinkedIn, the director of the Fulbright Alumni Association and an SV entrepreneur who mentored me early on and introduced me to Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurial mindset and customs. She also motivated me to study and pursue a career in the US.” Candia also expressed gratitude towards Miguel Angel Saez, another startup founder, who helped him get into Microsoft.

The startup founder further added that his application was accepted by three US universities, but he couldn’t attend due to financial constraints. In one of the tweets, Nahuel Candia shared about his first solo trip abroad to San Francisco. He wrote, “At 19, I started my first company, Shovel Apps, “The WordPress for mobile apps”, and took my first solo trip abroad to San Francisco. I stayed in a rough part of SF (Tenderloin), ate pizza at events, and negotiated Uber rides off-app to save a few bucks.”

He also posted that in 2015 he was selected for an exclusive program by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). he wrote, “In 2015, I was selected for an exclusive program from @MIT that would be the first time out of Boston. Out of 4k+ applicants, 70 entrepreneurs from 50+ countries would meet in Seoul, South Korea, for one week as part of a three-month program.” He expressed, “The program was one of the most intense experiences of my life, and I made some of the best friends I have ever made.” He stated, “In 2016, we had to close my first company – basically, we crashed and burned since we couldn’t find PMF.”

He then went on a “round-the-world trip to Asia” and applied for jobs at Google, AWS, and Facebook. He preferred AWS but couldn’t make the cut. However, he got the UK Entrepreneurship residency time afterward. He further wrote, “I moved back to the UK in 2021 with Rebill, and entered Y Combinator four months later. I realized running Rebill from the UK was killing me because of the 5-hour time difference, so I returned to Argentina to build up the team. Now, we are 12 in a kick-ass team, operating the next-to-be Stripe for Latin America. My move to Miami is part of a bigger vision to connect the US Market with Latin America and vice versa.”

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Check the viral post:

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The post was shared a day ago and since then it has accumulated above 1 million views and numbers are still increasing. Many viewers congratulated the startup owner in the comments section of the post. “Congratulations and cheers to that view,” wrote a user. “Congratulations & welcome Nahuel,” added a second. “Congrats. It’s an amazing achievement. I’m also beginning my journey and this has inspired me a lot,” expressed a third. “I’m glad that you’re an American,” mentioned a fourth.