Also I-485's i.e. Green Cards, Permanent Residence status, in the US are based on where you are BORN not which citizenship(s) you have.
It's a big reason a lot of Indian national SWEs on H-1Bs end up in Canada.
And GC quotas are based on place of birth.
Compare to a country like Germany, where you can get a work visa, extend it indefinitely, and then roll it over into permanent residency after five years. No bullshit, no lotteries, you just meet the legal requirements and your applications are accepted in a matter of weeks.
If you have a US work visa for 24 months (max), it should automatically roll over into a green card. Background checks should be the responsibility of the company to get finished before 24 months and failure to do so should be a Federal felony that puts the CEO in jail.
This would completely unblock the technical pipeline for US visas.
I hope Canada sucks up all the good H-1Bs leaving behind the dregs. It would finally force corporations to lobby to fix the problems.
I am positive it is. It works like most things in the US. The ruling class profits tremendously from the exploitation it enables, and American citizens are much too propagandized and alienated from politics to do anything about it.
Our visa policies directly hinder economic growth. And in the most absurd ways imaginable. H1B is tied to an employer. If your startup goes under you’re out. If you get laid off you’re out. I’d you want to switch jobs lawyers have to get involved.
It’s a lottery once a year so tons of skilled workers sit on their hands waiting. Then most don’t get in because… lottery.
I literally couldn’t invent a more useless and stupid visa system if I tried.
Yep, it's much the same in Japan. Work visas for skilled jobs (like IT) are easy to get if a company wants to hire you, and you can apply for permanent residency in 1, 3, or 10 years, depending on how many points you score. IT professionals can easily get enough points for the 1 or 3-year requirements. As you said, no bullshit, no lotteries, just meet the legal requirements.
Leveling up is a long, slow process of decades. Immigration offers to improve someone's life a lot faster.
It’s a shame.
It’s a shame.
> This is a cultural problem because majority of the immigrants are from India and they focus on education too much. We need to get people in to trades and creating new job opportunities in energy and lumber our natural resources or infrastructure.
https://www.businesstoday.in/amp/entrepreneurship/news/story...
For a year that’s seen massive changes in abortion rights, monetary policy, deposit insurance and military posture, this is a strange conclusion to come to.
The answer is the “both sides agree that GC backlog is a problem” observation is wrong.
Assuming a highly conservative $20k in annual tuition fees (the cheapest decent US public college will run you at least $30k for 2 semesters in tuition alone, never mind fees, living costs, etc), that’s about $10Bn in additional annual revenue with about 4 years locked in, every year.
And that’s just tuition. It doesn’t include living costs, the fact that many students might have friends and family visit, they will contribute to the academic and research programs at the university, and will graduate and almost certainly have a much higher output than what they will consume, being, almost by definition, more highly educated than the average Canadian.
