November 20, 2025 • 8 mins
OnlyFans creators are increasingly obtaining O-1 visas typically reserved for individuals with “extraordinary talent,” and Florida Phoenix Reporter Liv Caputo explains how they’re doing it. We also have an update on a new Florida bill proposing to change the terminology used for “child pornography” in state statutes.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let's go to the hotline and bring in Live Kaputa,
reporter for the Florida Phoenix. You can check out her
work at Florida Phoenix dot com and you can follow
her on x for more at Live Kaputo Live. Really
appreciate it taking a few minutes to come back on
the show this morning. Immigration big topic of debate these days,
(00:20):
both illegal immigration and legal immigration, and the battle in
DC tied to legal immigration has been mainly over H
one B visas, those employment related visas for jobs and
like tech and engineering. But you have a report on
a visa I didn't even know about.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
What are OH one visas?
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Hi, Ryan, thank you so much for having me on. Yeah,
so OH one visas are kind of like a more
exclusive version of H one D visas. It is specifically
designed for quote, extraordinary talent. You have OH one B,
which would be extraordinary talent in the arts, and you
have OH one A, which would be extraordinary talent in
business or athleticism or science. The one B visa, interestingly,
(01:09):
has started to be used by more influencers and even
only fans models that's real talent, Yes it does, and
so it's it's kind of become and now, while of
course actors and models and TV stars are still using
(01:30):
these on one B visas primarily, we're starting to see
in the past decade or so, as social media gets
more prevalent, we're starting to see way more influencers are
coming to the US on these visas, and of the
immigration lawyers I spoke to, all of them said it's
just increasing year over year, which is fascinating to me.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Oh yeah, I mean when I saw this story and
again everyone can check this out at Florida Phoenix dot com.
Uh my jaw dropped because I I had no idea what's.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Going on and how we need people to come here. Yeah, visus, Yeah,
we don't have enough.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Talent right right, We need more talent in the OnlyFans space.
So tell us about the lawyer that you talked to
who described his first OnlyFans client, how that worked, and
then how things changed for that attorney moving forward.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Yeah, for sure, So I spoke to this one attorney.
One of the attorneys I spoke to was Jacob Zapatschnik.
He's in San Diego and he works in this influencer
field with immigration where it kind of crosses over and
what he his first client who reached out to him,
who was, you know, an OnlyFans model. She reached out
in twenty twenty, which is kind of when the platform
(02:41):
started to peak. Was twenty twenty to like twenty twenty
two COVID people were at home, and so she reaches
out and he's like, I don't know about this. I
don't know if I can get an OnlyFans model to
get a visa. And she goes, well, let me show
you how much money I'm making. He's like, okay. He
looks and she's making two hundred and fifty thousan dollars
a month, and he goes, oh my god, Okay, yeah,
(03:07):
I can use that. And just some background here, Oh
onebvisa is part of the criteria because if you're extraordinary,
you need to be making a lot of money in
your field. So that's one box checked. You also need
to be maybe nationally or internationally recognized. Guess what social
media and only fans spans borders, so you're starting to
(03:29):
check more and more boxes.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
He helps her.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
She starts she's been dabbling in fitness influencing, and she's
able to get into the country now more and more
only fans models. For a while we're doing this, but
now since maybe twenty twenty two, so many women are
trying to make it big on OnlyFans that it's kind
of an oversaturated platform. They're also having to compete with
(03:54):
AI generated porn, which is free, and so it's because
I'm almost harder now for these only fans models to
get visas as of late. A good example would be
this one influencer from Singapore reached out to this attorney
and she said, I want to know one to.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Be visa too.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
He looks, He's like, yeah, you got some money, but
it's not enough traction online. She was making six thousand
to eight thousand a month, so.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Not to that.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
And she told him. She goes, that's fine. I'm just
going to keep doing my only fans and I'll come
back when I'm.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Ready, and I'm sure she will be back. She needs
to snap it up and no doubt.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Yeah again, an incredible report. Read it at Florida Phoenix
dot com. I want to get to another thing that
you're reporting on. This is a bill. It caught my
attention when it was first filed. It's starting to move
now ahead of the legislative session. And the bill is
looking to replace the term child pornography and state law
(04:57):
tell us about that.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Yeah, it's this bill. Well, that's trying to change, like
you said, replace the term child pornography with child sexual
abuse material. And the reason it's doing that is because
pornography is inherently kind of it's a legal term, right
something adults do it is it is legal. And the
sponsor is Red Jessica Baker. She said, you know, to
(05:21):
kind of put child in front of it almost creates
this idea that, oh, pornography is children. Well that's a
legal term, and she's saying, you know what, that's not okay.
You know, we need to replace that with child sexual
abuse material because in no world our videos or images
of you know, sexually bad or children and no world
is that legal. So she's kind of taking cues from
(05:43):
the Department of Justice, which in twenty twenty three released
a memo saying similarly, Hey, we like to say child
sexual abuse material, not child pornography. We need to start
changing the rhetoric to get that message across.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
We're joined by Lif Kaputo Order for the Florida Phoenix.
You can find her work at Florida Phoenix dot com
and you can follow her on x at Live Capudo.
You know, I think some people they might hear this
and think, here we go, we're changing terms again, because
there's there's a lot of that that's been going on
in recent years. This one, though, this one to me,
(06:19):
makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Yeah, it definitely does make sense.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Because child pornography, I think it kind of it downplays
what it is child sexual abuse material that is exactly
what's going on.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
And Live.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
I don't know about you, you follow the news closely,
just like we do.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
We're doing child porn stories every day.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
I should say child Yes, it's gonna take me a
minute to get it right. But child sexual abuse material stories.
I mean, it's insane how many there are just here
in Florida.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
It's every single day.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
So I could see trying to get people to use
this terminology to really hammer home what's going on in society.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
One hundred percent, especially as you know, kind of going
back to what I was saying before, as the Internet
and social media becomes a bigger thing, you also have,
you know, the horrible child molestors having a bigger platform
if you will, to be able to search this stuff. Up,
create it, distribute it. You know, there was a press
conference that the Attorney general had maybe last week and
(07:22):
he was joined by all these shaffs. State announced that
they'd caught like one hundred and twenty child of predators
and they were saying like, we are seeing more child
predators with the advent of the internet. So you know,
it's it's the sooner you change the language. It's a
small thing, but you know, you gotta do what you
(07:42):
gotta do.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
It makes sense.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Last thing for you, do you think is that a
bill that has some momentum that could pass the session
or too early to tell.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
I definitely think so. Florida's been really big on trying
to crack down on child predators and trying to protect
children who have been used, So I would think so
this bill already we're only in committee weeks right now.
It's Florida, We're the session hasn't even started.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
So this bill.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Already fat passed its first committee hurdle in the House.
Hasn't been heard in the Senate yet, but I expect
it will be. So it appears to have some traction.
I'd be surprised if it.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Didn't pass, all right, Reporter for the Florida Phoenix Live
campudo with us again.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
You can find all of her work, these reports and
a whole lot more.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
And you got to read that report on the one
versus Florida Phoenix dot com and you can follow her
on x two for more at Livcaputa Live.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Really appreciate it, Thanks so much.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Thank you appreciate it.
Let's go to the hotline and bring in Live Kaputa,
reporter for the Florida Phoenix. You can check out her
work at Florida Phoenix dot com and you can follow
her on x for more at Live Kaputo Live. Really
appreciate it taking a few minutes to come back on
the show this morning. Immigration big topic of debate these days,
(00:20):
both illegal immigration and legal immigration, and the battle in
DC tied to legal immigration has been mainly over H
one B visas, those employment related visas for jobs and
like tech and engineering. But you have a report on
a visa I didn't even know about.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
What are OH one visas?
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Hi, Ryan, thank you so much for having me on. Yeah,
so OH one visas are kind of like a more
exclusive version of H one D visas. It is specifically
designed for quote, extraordinary talent. You have OH one B,
which would be extraordinary talent in the arts, and you
have OH one A, which would be extraordinary talent in
business or athleticism or science. The one B visa, interestingly,
(01:09):
has started to be used by more influencers and even
only fans models that's real talent, Yes it does, and
so it's it's kind of become and now, while of
course actors and models and TV stars are still using
(01:30):
these on one B visas primarily, we're starting to see
in the past decade or so, as social media gets
more prevalent, we're starting to see way more influencers are
coming to the US on these visas, and of the
immigration lawyers I spoke to, all of them said it's
just increasing year over year, which is fascinating to me.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Oh yeah, I mean when I saw this story and
again everyone can check this out at Florida Phoenix dot com.
Uh my jaw dropped because I I had no idea what's.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Going on and how we need people to come here. Yeah, visus, Yeah,
we don't have enough.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Talent right right, We need more talent in the OnlyFans space.
So tell us about the lawyer that you talked to
who described his first OnlyFans client, how that worked, and
then how things changed for that attorney moving forward.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Yeah, for sure, So I spoke to this one attorney.
One of the attorneys I spoke to was Jacob Zapatschnik.
He's in San Diego and he works in this influencer
field with immigration where it kind of crosses over and
what he his first client who reached out to him,
who was, you know, an OnlyFans model. She reached out
in twenty twenty, which is kind of when the platform
(02:41):
started to peak. Was twenty twenty to like twenty twenty
two COVID people were at home, and so she reaches
out and he's like, I don't know about this. I
don't know if I can get an OnlyFans model to
get a visa. And she goes, well, let me show
you how much money I'm making. He's like, okay. He
looks and she's making two hundred and fifty thousan dollars
a month, and he goes, oh my god, Okay, yeah,
(03:07):
I can use that. And just some background here, Oh
onebvisa is part of the criteria because if you're extraordinary,
you need to be making a lot of money in
your field. So that's one box checked. You also need
to be maybe nationally or internationally recognized. Guess what social
media and only fans spans borders, so you're starting to
(03:29):
check more and more boxes.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
He helps her.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
She starts she's been dabbling in fitness influencing, and she's
able to get into the country now more and more
only fans models. For a while we're doing this, but
now since maybe twenty twenty two, so many women are
trying to make it big on OnlyFans that it's kind
of an oversaturated platform. They're also having to compete with
(03:54):
AI generated porn, which is free, and so it's because
I'm almost harder now for these only fans models to
get visas as of late. A good example would be
this one influencer from Singapore reached out to this attorney
and she said, I want to know one to.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Be visa too.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
He looks, He's like, yeah, you got some money, but
it's not enough traction online. She was making six thousand
to eight thousand a month, so.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Not to that.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
And she told him. She goes, that's fine. I'm just
going to keep doing my only fans and I'll come
back when I'm.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Ready, and I'm sure she will be back. She needs
to snap it up and no doubt.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Yeah again, an incredible report. Read it at Florida Phoenix
dot com. I want to get to another thing that
you're reporting on. This is a bill. It caught my
attention when it was first filed. It's starting to move
now ahead of the legislative session. And the bill is
looking to replace the term child pornography and state law
(04:57):
tell us about that.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Yeah, it's this bill. Well, that's trying to change, like
you said, replace the term child pornography with child sexual
abuse material. And the reason it's doing that is because
pornography is inherently kind of it's a legal term, right
something adults do it is it is legal. And the
sponsor is Red Jessica Baker. She said, you know, to
(05:21):
kind of put child in front of it almost creates
this idea that, oh, pornography is children. Well that's a
legal term, and she's saying, you know what, that's not okay.
You know, we need to replace that with child sexual
abuse material because in no world our videos or images
of you know, sexually bad or children and no world
is that legal. So she's kind of taking cues from
(05:43):
the Department of Justice, which in twenty twenty three released
a memo saying similarly, Hey, we like to say child
sexual abuse material, not child pornography. We need to start
changing the rhetoric to get that message across.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
We're joined by Lif Kaputo Order for the Florida Phoenix.
You can find her work at Florida Phoenix dot com
and you can follow her on x at Live Capudo.
You know, I think some people they might hear this
and think, here we go, we're changing terms again, because
there's there's a lot of that that's been going on
in recent years. This one, though, this one to me,
(06:19):
makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Yeah, it definitely does make sense.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Because child pornography, I think it kind of it downplays
what it is child sexual abuse material that is exactly
what's going on.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
And Live.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
I don't know about you, you follow the news closely,
just like we do.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
We're doing child porn stories every day.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
I should say child Yes, it's gonna take me a
minute to get it right. But child sexual abuse material stories.
I mean, it's insane how many there are just here
in Florida.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
It's every single day.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
So I could see trying to get people to use
this terminology to really hammer home what's going on in society.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
One hundred percent, especially as you know, kind of going
back to what I was saying before, as the Internet
and social media becomes a bigger thing, you also have,
you know, the horrible child molestors having a bigger platform
if you will, to be able to search this stuff. Up,
create it, distribute it. You know, there was a press
conference that the Attorney general had maybe last week and
(07:22):
he was joined by all these shaffs. State announced that
they'd caught like one hundred and twenty child of predators
and they were saying like, we are seeing more child
predators with the advent of the internet. So you know,
it's it's the sooner you change the language. It's a
small thing, but you know, you gotta do what you
(07:42):
gotta do.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
It makes sense.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Last thing for you, do you think is that a
bill that has some momentum that could pass the session
or too early to tell.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
I definitely think so. Florida's been really big on trying
to crack down on child predators and trying to protect
children who have been used, So I would think so
this bill already we're only in committee weeks right now.
It's Florida, We're the session hasn't even started.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
So this bill.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Already fat passed its first committee hurdle in the House.
Hasn't been heard in the Senate yet, but I expect
it will be. So it appears to have some traction.
I'd be surprised if it.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Didn't pass, all right, Reporter for the Florida Phoenix Live
campudo with us again.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
You can find all of her work, these reports and
a whole lot more.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
And you got to read that report on the one
versus Florida Phoenix dot com and you can follow her
on x two for more at Livcaputa Live.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Really appreciate it, Thanks so much.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Thank you appreciate it.
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