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I don’t think the US is easy to emigrate to for extended periods of time. I am put off by being tied to one employer in an at-will employment culture and needin
by quickthrower2 4y ago
I don’t think the US is easy to
emigrate to for extended periods of
time. I am put off by being tied to one employer in an at-will employment culture and needing that job to stay resident.
Wikipedia says 188,100 new and initial H-1B visas were issued in 2019. So not a lot.
- avrionov 4y agoUSA also has the Green Card Lottery which provides 50k visas per year.
- quickthrower2 4y agoEach 100k is 0.03% of the US population. So it is not much.
- avrionov 4y agoIt added about 1.5M since 1990 which is a huge number.
- mrow84 4y agoAccording to [0] there are more than 3.5 million births per year, so a bit more than 100 million since 1990. 1.5% isn’t insignificant, but I wouldn’t call it huge. [0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/195908/number-of-births-in-the-united-states-since-1990/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/195908/number-of-births-...
- ajmurmann 4y agoThat's also bad for US salaries as those visa holders have less mobility and thus drive the equilibrium price down. It's a lose/lose in the name of "ma jobs"...
- outworlder 4y agoThere's also L1 visas, O, etc.