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Eh, as a third culture kid with a US passport and 50%+ friends being international/TCK - it's honestly because the VISA process is appalling. Out of a sample o
by binarysolo 7y ago
Eh, as a third culture kid with a US passport and 50%+ friends being international/TCK - it's honestly because the VISA process is appalling.
Out of a sample of 10 international students I went to school with at Stanford 20 years ago (I just eyeballed my FB friend list and took 10, totally biased anec-data I know):
• 4 are now citizens - all their green card processes took 7+ years, except the one person who got it via marriage
• 2 are STILL in the green card process
• 1 intentionally went home for opportunity
• 3 left due to VISA expiration issues. 2 went to Europe, 1 went to Canada. 2 are CS grads, 1 has a PhD in ML.
It massively sucks. We're talking about amazingly resourceful people who got raised at whatever sheep farm in Kenya and Uzbekistan, made it all the way to Stanford via merit-based scholarships and what not, and then got ejected from the US because national policy... and now some other country with friendlier VISA policies got 'em.
- magduf 7y agoI don't see why this "massively sucks". Obviously, the American people, and the government they elected, don't really want these smart people in their country contributing to their economy, so there's other countries (the ones with friendlier visa policies) where they're more welcome and they should go. You can claim that Americans are shooting themselves in the foot with these policies, and electing people like Trump, but if that's what they want to do...
- someguydave 7y agoTrump has said many times that he wants a more meritocratic immigration system. A combination of big business and pandering to minorities keeps Congress from changing immigration from chain-migration to merit-based immigration.