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You no longer can say that it's hard to emigrate to the USA: you just need to enlist, give up your freedom and possibly your morals! Grrreat deal.
by not_a_test_user 11y ago
You no longer can say that it's hard to emigrate to the USA: you just need to enlist, give up your freedom and possibly your morals! Grrreat deal.
- FireBeyond 11y agoAnd fluently speak the language of your homeland, which the US deems a high security risk and of particular need to have defense personnel with knowledge thereof...
- walsh-cloonagh 11y agoCzech, Polish, Hungarian and Turkish are on the list: the languages of NATO allies The languages of other many US allies are on the list as well. So, this program is at least not entirely a Bay of Pigs style plot
- dragonwriter 11y agoYeah, the list seems to include a lot of languages that seem more likely to be motivated by potential need for US military to be cooperating with forces speaking those languages than languages associated with threat populations.
- readme 11y agoIf you come in as a MAVNI, you are probably not going to get to do a job using your home language, at least for a long time. It is not easy to get a security clearance as a Chinese or Russian immigrant. I met people who wanted to work as a linguist who spoke fluent English and another language. The guys I met ended up enlisting as mental health specialists and pharmacy assistants.
- walsh-cloonagh 11y agoIn 2012 1,031,631 people became permanent residents of the United States [1]. Obviously there are paths to citizenship. But some kinds of temporary visas don't offer a path to citizenship (like intercompany transfer L visas or F student visas) and this program could be useful to people on those visas if they'd like to stay. [1] http://www.voanews.com/content/us-issues-million-green-cards-and-naturalizes-757000-in-2012/1627155.html http://www.voanews.com/content/us-issues-million-green-cards...