# Build for the Border - Immigrant Hackathon NYC
**Date de l'événement :** 09/05/2026
* Publié le 09/05/2026

### Date
09/05/2026

### Galerie d'image
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### Ville
`#New York` 

## Description
NYC's First Immigrant Hackathon The immigration system is broken. You already know this because you've lived it. On May 9th, we're bringing 250+ immigrant founders, engineers, and builders in NYC for a one-day sprint to build the products that fix it along with a supercool fireside chat. This is the biggest one-day hackathon for the immigrant builder community. Come with an idea, come without one - just come ready to ship something real. 🧩 Problem Statement Every year, millions of brilliant people try to move to, build in, or stay in the US and get crushed by systems designed for no one. Lawyers are expensive, timelines are brutal, and "becoming American" is a full-time job nobody trained you for. We're bringing together the people most affected by this to build software that actually helps. 🎯 The Challenge - Two Tracks Founder Immigration: visas (O-1, EB-1A, H-1B alternatives), company formation, cross-border ops, stay-in-the-US strategy tools. Learning to be American: onboarding, cultural + system navigation (banking, credit, healthcare, housing, taxes), tools for the first 1,000 days. 📅 What to Expect 10:00 – 11:00 AM — Doors open: mixer + team formation. Meet your future co-founder. 11:00 – 11:45 AM — Fireside chat & panel with top immigrant founders who've been in the trenches. 11:45 AM – 12:00 PM — Partner intros, sponsor demos, and official hackathon kickoff (theme, rules, judging criteria) 12:00 – 5:00 PM — 5-hour build sprint (lunch provided) 5:00 – 6:00 PM — Live demos, judging, and prize ceremony 🏆 Prizes SimpleApply credits $10K Alai credits - They helps people create high quality presentations with AI $500+ Featherless.ai credits $15k+ Tavily credits 👨‍⚖️ Judges Our judges are a mix of YC-backed founders, immigrant builders, and investors. Anmol Sood - founder of Alai, a Y-Combinator backed startup helping people create high quality presentations with AI. Siam Hossain - Messenger of Migration Movement | Ecosystem Builder. Arpit Gupta - Investor at Polygon Labs. 🙋 Who Should Attend Immigrant founders and aspiring founders Engineers (full stack, backend, AI/ML) who want to build with purpose International Students Anyone who has navigated a visa, a green card, or the US immigration system Builders who care about making systems more human You don't need a finished idea or a team. Just freakin show up. Sponsors Simpleapply.ai - Have AI Apply to hundreds of relevant positions in the time it takes to submit one manual application! Credits Lovable - Build and deploy apps using natural language. Featherless.ai gives developers instant access to 25,000+ open-source AI models through a single API — no setup, no infra, just build. Tavily - Web search for AI agents Hosts Somya Gupta - The face of NYC startup ecosystem. Pulse NYC AI - A community, incubator, and venture fund built for founders, researchers, and technologists shaping the future of AI in New York City. CAST-GNY - cross-discipline nonprofit. Bond AI - The trusted community for AI events, connecting 140K+ builders & ecosystem partners.

**Lien de l'évènement :** [https://luma.com/event/evt-U6IyUCfzgJqt4pF](https://luma.com/event/evt-U6IyUCfzgJqt4pF)

### Pays
`#United States` 

### Continent
`#North America` 

**Médias associés :**
[Média 1](https://80954c1d.sibforms.com/serve/MUIFABojU8UBbDiX_TdcGa7Wv5VMoVB_nBZ92mkLkGlS1pJLpP7s-pVJusyN-7cG9KPrSuv3fv7TmXwuw_AoyNUShR8jZhmNDgUbZPJO2V5xYXlNz4YXOTjSb8X7Lj7PRIPzgzEWlLbA4f4uw_F8RM51EUsjSfQQko0qaby98GHMdYJVWLIXd5JzzaXBGmqN2CcYOFuqnbnaYEnw) 

## event_id
evt-U6IyUCfzgJqt4pF@events.lu.ma

### Outils
`#Alai` `#Featherless.ai` `#Tavily` `#SimpleApply.ai` `#Lovable` 



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