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Good point. Now, if only the US didn't follow the EU footsteps regarding immigration rather then the other way around... As someone who is neither European n

by ido 20y ago

Good point. Now, if only the US didn't follow the EU footsteps regarding immigration rather then the other way around... As someone who is neither European nor American, moving to the EU was much simpler for me then moving to the US would have been. In fact, I would probably not have even gotten a tourist visa to the US these days (which used to be really easy a decade ago)! The USA is no longer an immigrant friendly country, I'm afraid - not unless you come from a one of a small group of preferred countries like England or Canada.

NonEUCitizen 20y ago
How did you move to the EU? Thanks.
- ido 20y ago
  I came here on a tourist visa (valid for 3 months), then found a part time job & registered to university (M.Sc. in Mathematics & Computer Science). Once I was registered to university I got a student's visa (valid for 1 year & renewable as long as I am still a student). Once you manage to get a decent full time job and earn enough money (more then ~43,000 USD/year for Austria) getting an unrestricted work permission and a residency permit is not a problem.