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Here is an important question. Did you apply for the green card lottery or did you get on some other premises, and what were those?
by pepeto 19y ago
Here is an important question. Did you apply for the green card lottery or did you get on some other premises, and what were those?
- abstractbill 19y agoI was ineligible for the Green Card lottery since I'm British. It was an employment-based application. The startup I worked for in London got acquired in 2003 and we all got the chance to move to the Bay Area.
- juwo 19y agomost immigrants come here because their home country had a much lower standard of living - aside from the opportunity. So I am surprised that you took so much trouble; surely Britain has an equivalent standard of living?
- abstractbill 19y agoIt has an equivalent standard of living - in some ways I still prefer it. It doesn't have anything like Silicon Valley though.
- davidw 19y agoI can't figure out whether the people who run immigration in most countries are complete morons on their own, or if their political masters have significant influence in the stupidity of the system. My own personal example (well, one): when I got married in Italy, I had to swear, in front of a (busy) judge, with two witnesses, that no, I was not actually married elsewhere. I don't think there would be any huge effects if things were basically opened up between wealthy countries... a few would go here from there, and vice versa, and things would balance out. But it is increasingly difficult. Bleagh!
- juwo 19y ago"if things were basically opened up between wealthy countries" so, only between wealthy countries?
- davidw 19y agoFor starters. You couldn't realistically completely open, Holland, say, to immigration from India and China without some adverse consequences. Between rich countries, people would likely flow back and forth enough to balance things out.
- darius 19y agoI got mine through marriage. I came here with a college F1 visa.