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Not sure why you're being downvoted; it's not exactly the best time to be an immigrant in America. Maybe if you're not a visible minority and never leave the v
by rescripting 8y ago
Not sure why you're being downvoted; it's not exactly the best time to be an immigrant in America.
Maybe if you're not a visible minority and never leave the valley you could stick your thumbs in your ears and just cash the cheques.
- wetpaws 8y agoCanada is not exactly perfect either.
- jonny_eh 8y agoIt's all relative.
- ojbyrne 8y agoIf you're a Canadian its a choice between not being an immigrant and being an immigrant.
- slededit 8y agoI moved back after 10 years. While being an immigrant sucks in ways a lot of people don't imagine - its worth it for the initial education and career boost. It will also teach you to "think like an american" which is important when the majority of capital is controlled by US persons.
- parthdesai 8y agoIt is much much easier to immigrate to Canada than to USA.
- xienze 8y agoSpits drink Are you serious? Canada has a point-based system that requires you have some actual real skills and an education. I wish we had an immigration system like that in the US. Here, you can just sneak across the border or claim asylum citing vague claims of "persecution" and you'll have an entire political party fighting on your behalf to keep you in the country at all costs. If it were truly that easy to immigrate to Canada people would have actually made good on their "if Trump wins I'm moving to Canada" threats.
- dragonwriter 8y ago> Canada has a point-based system that requires you have some actual real skills and an education. While based on binary categories rather than point-based system, so does US employment-based immigration. It also often requires a sponsoring employer, as well. OTOH, Canada, like the US, also has family based immigration—and because it doesn't have per-country limits, it doesn't have decade+ wait times from some high-interest countries in key categories (though it does have smaller multi-year waits in some categories for immigrant visas, but it also has renewable multi-year “visiting family” supervisas which you can apparently take advantage of while an immigrant visa is pending.) > Here, you can just sneak across the border or claim asylum citing vague claims of "persecution" and you'll have an entire political party fighting on your behalf to keep you in the country at all costs. Canada not only has asylum (and accepts proportionately more refugees than the US even before Trump), but it doesn't seem to have a major political party scapegoating them and illegal immigrants to justify policies cutting back on legal immigration. > If it were truly that easy to immigrate to Canada people would have actually made good on their "if Trump wins I'm moving to Canada" threats. No, they wouldn't; difficulty of immigration isn't the reason people who make that kind of hyperbolic threat every election almost never follow through.
- apercu 8y agoI found it way easier to move emigrate to Canada than most of my Canadian friends going the other way. Anecdotal but that's been my experience.
- nailer 8y agoWhy? I know there's some clamp downs on H1-B but they don't seem huge, and most tech migration is legal.
- klipt 8y agoWhen Trump's travel ban rolled out and people with green cards were being blocked at the border, I was terrified. Thank goodness the courts struck down that version. My wife and I aren't from any of the blocked countries, but who knows how the list could have grown at Trump's whim and current "enemy of the week".