# Silicon Valley first season **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 16, 2016, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silicon-valley-first-season/757556 "2016-06-16T19:52:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2016, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silicon-valley-first-season/757556/1 "2016-06-16T19:52:48Z")
Nothing directly popped up on search, but in the first season when they have to incorparate. One of the team members is found to be an undocumented alien. How did he get the visa so fast, or was that just a fictional never happen in real life. Declan ---
**Author:** ![JacobSwan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@JacobSwan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JacobSwan)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2016, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silicon-valley-first-season/757556/2 "2016-06-16T20:33:49Z")
> [@Declan](#): > > Nothing directly popped up on search, but in the first season when they have to incorparate. One of the team members is found to be an undocumented alien. How did he get the visa so fast, or was that just a fictional never happen in real life. > > Declan He was Canadian. Everyone assumed that the undocumented alien would be the Indian guy, but it wasn’t. I’m not sure if it’s really that easy for a Canadian to get a visa in the US though. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2016, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silicon-valley-first-season/757556/3 "2016-06-16T20:36:03Z")
He was a white undocumented alien from Canada. The joke was that he went down to the immigration office and got it straightened out in ten minutes. His Pakistani colleague was incensed and said something like “they asked me 10 times about Al Qaeda when I got my visa.” ---
**Author:** ![Emtar\_KronJonDerSohn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/58956e/32.png) [@Emtar\_KronJonDerSohn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emtar_KronJonDerSohn)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2016, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silicon-valley-first-season/757556/4 "2016-06-16T23:10:40Z")
So… hilarity ensued?