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As per [1]: "29 000 highly qualified non-EU workers received an EU Blue Card in 2021, giving them comprehensive socio-economic rights and a residence in the EU.

As per [1]: "29 000 highly qualified non-EU workers received an EU Blue Card in 2021, giving them comprehensive socio-economic rights and a residence in the EU." it's unclear how many applied but if the process is as easy as you described it could not be much more, say 50K is a fair estimate? As per [2]: "USCIS announced that the agency received a total of 308,613 H-1B cap registrations, of which USCIS issued 87,500 registration selections in March 2021." If the EU system was as oversubscribed as the US it would have the same problems. 1. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?oldid=539496 https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php... 2. https://ogletree.com/insights-resources/blog-posts/uscis-releases-data-with-official-number-of-fy2022-h-1b-cap-registrations/ https://ogletree.com/insights-resources/blog-posts/uscis-rel...

Muromec 3y ago
It isn't really a fair comparison. Netherlands alone gave out 30k Knowledge Migrant permits last year, they just don't fall under Blue Card schema (which is mostly Germany). Notice the almost 100% rate of requested/granted in the chart [1]. That's also the same year the service had to grant refugee status to Ukrainians. Then again, total amount of immigration permits per year is 7 in US vs 2.5 for the whole EU, so maybe you have a point. 1. https://ind.nl/en/about-us/statistics-and-publications/the-ind-in-figures https://ind.nl/en/about-us/statistics-and-publications/the-i...
- pandaman 3y ago
  Whatever you have is not a Netherlands work permit though because[1]: "Change of employer or job The residence permit is valid as long as you meet the requirements. This can also be the case if you change employers or job. If you no longer work for your employer, or change jobs as a result of which you no longer meet the rules for which the residence permit was issued, then your employer must notify the IND of this. If you have found another job as a highly skilled migrant, your new employer must notify the IND of this within 4 weeks. The IND will then check if the requirements are still met." Also this has much more requirements on issue than you described and the 30K number likely includes the changes described above, as well as extensions. 1. https://ind.nl/en/forms/3072.pdf https://ind.nl/en/forms/3072.pdf
  - Muromec 3y ago
    >Also this has much more requirements on issue than you described Which one did I miss?
    - pandaman 3y ago
      You apparently need to pay fees, get passport stamp, get TB test, register somewhere etc.

Muromec 3y ago

It isn't really a fair comparison. Netherlands alone gave out 30k Knowledge Migrant permits last year, they just don't fall under Blue Card schema (which is mostly Germany). Notice the almost 100% rate of requested/granted in the chart [1]. That's also the same year the service had to grant refugee status to Ukrainians. Then again, total amount of immigration permits per year is 7 in US vs 2.5 for the whole EU, so maybe you have a point. 1. https://ind.nl/en/about-us/statistics-and-publications/the-ind-in-figures https://ind.nl/en/about-us/statistics-and-publications/the-i...

pandaman 3y ago
Whatever you have is not a Netherlands work permit though because[1]: "Change of employer or job The residence permit is valid as long as you meet the requirements. This can also be the case if you change employers or job. If you no longer work for your employer, or change jobs as a result of which you no longer meet the rules for which the residence permit was issued, then your employer must notify the IND of this. If you have found another job as a highly skilled migrant, your new employer must notify the IND of this within 4 weeks. The IND will then check if the requirements are still met." Also this has much more requirements on issue than you described and the 30K number likely includes the changes described above, as well as extensions. 1. https://ind.nl/en/forms/3072.pdf https://ind.nl/en/forms/3072.pdf
- Muromec 3y ago
  >Also this has much more requirements on issue than you described Which one did I miss?
  - pandaman 3y ago
    You apparently need to pay fees, get passport stamp, get TB test, register somewhere etc.