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The US is super weird. It's the only place I know of that doesn't have a clear, fixed-time based, permanent residency program, without quotas. As an example,
by oblio 4y ago
The US is super weird.
It's the only place I know of that doesn't have a clear, fixed-time based, permanent residency program, without quotas.
As an example, in all European countries that I know of, permanent residency works like this:
- you need to fulfill some prerequisites (usually a civics course/test, a language course/test, no criminal record, be employed or in education)
- then you need to be in the country for N years
- then you need to apply and you generally get the result in a few months, maximum
That's it. For the average person the "hard" requirements are actually: learn the local language up to the required level, spend N years.
It doesn't matter where you're from.
- JCharante 4y agoAre there any Asian countries besides Japan that give out permanent residency?
- SenHeng 4y agoSingapore gives them out like candy to high earners.
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- yohannesk 4y agoThailand comes to mind
- throwaway33381 4y agoKorea I think.
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- pshirshov 4y agoIt's not "a few months" everywhere. E.g.in Ireland current processing time is about 19-24 months since the moment you've sent your application.
- oblio 4y agoTrue, but once you fulfill all the requirements, it's just about slow bureaucracy, the same it is for everything. It isn't what could be described as malevolence, see those US green card policies that make the processing time for some cases take decades.
- edwcross 4y agoIn theory, you are possibly right, but in practice, that is not always the case. For instance, in France, currently some departments have a fixed number of interview slots per month, meaning people either have to hack their way into finding an available slot (e.g. using scripts to refresh the website in the middle of the night and hope to wake up when a slot becomes available; good luck if you don't know how to hack the system yourself), or they have to pay scalpers to get an appointment. Then, you get assigned a pre-interview slot, which can take as long as a year of waiting. If you are lucky and everything works out, in the pre-interview, you will get assigned an actual interview slot. Which will be communicated by letter. And which can take yet another year of waiting. Then, when the actual interview takes place, they give you no definitive answer for almost a year. You only know if it worked out at the end of the process. Overall, the "be in the country for N years" can thus become "be in the country for N+3 years, while not being sure that the next step will actually work or you will be sent back to the beginning"; also, hope that no politicians change the system in the meantime, since all of this is unspecified, so that they can change the rules at any moment and there's no one to complain to. Of course, your mileage may vary; if you are rich enough to live in Paris, you will probably get better treatment. So, the US is definitely bad, but the real situation in some Europeans countries is not as good as it looks like.