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You should have read further...there are also easy to get visas for tech workers.

by madair 17y ago

bilbo0s 17y ago
And you should have read more than the article. The visa they give tech workers is the same one they have always given tech workers. There is nothing new there. Crucially, they can kick you out of the country whenever they please, which is usually when you are laid off. In Brasil you would have time to look for alternate employment, and a better chance of finding it. Also, the job has to be pre-existing. What I mean is that, they want the foreign investment first, then they will allow in immigrants. As opposed to allowing in immigrants to start businesses, thereby attracting foreign investment. This was the model that early immigration to the United States operated under. Not that everyone should do things our way. Heck we don't even do it our way anymore. Just pointing out that this is not a program for increased immigration. The visa rules are the same, UNLESS you are an investor.
- nico 17y ago
  Crucially, they can kick you out of the country whenever they please, which is usually when you are laid off. In Brasil you would have time to look for alternate employment, and a better chance of finding it. They could (just like in the US), but they don't. Check my comment about my Colombian partner above. He also switched jobs several times before, with a couple months in between, before we met and started our company. What's the point in putting Brasil above Chile anyway? Maybe Brasil is a great country to go start a company, I wouldn't know. But the article, and this thread, are about Chile and the conditions the country has created (on purpose or not) for high tech companies.
  - bilbo0s 17y ago
    My only point was that the article is presenting a program for increasing foreign investment, as though it were a program for increasing immigration. The title is, "Chile Wants Your Poor, Your Huddled Masses..." With such a title it appeared to me that the article was about immigration as well. This title invited me to research the issue. What I found was a program to increase foreign investment, which I admitted was laudable. What I did not find was a program to increase immigration, and intellectual honesty demands that we point out this inconsistency in the article. Brasil was simply a convenient 'case in point' of what a reasonable immigration system would look like. Though I think the Brasilians could go further as well. As could our own country.
- madair 17y ago
  Your comment, while interesting in other respects, easily misleads someone to think that there isn't an immigration element available, which there clearly is. Okay, so it's not Brazil: "Imma let you finish, but Brazil has the best visa program of all time". Heheh.
  - nico 17y ago
    Man, you made my day with that last comment!! I almost pissed my pants, hahaha.

You should have read further...there are also easy to get visas for tech workers.

by madair 17y ago

You should have read further...there are also easy to get visas for tech workers.

And you should have read more than the article. The visa they give tech workers is the same one they have always given tech workers. There is nothing new there. Crucially, they can kick you out of the country whenever they please, which is usually when you are laid off. In Brasil you would have time to look for alternate employment, and a better chance of finding it. Also, the job has to be pre-existing. What I mean is that, they want the foreign investment first, then they will allow in immigrants. As opposed to allowing in immigrants to start businesses, thereby attracting foreign investment. This was the model that early immigration to the United States operated under. Not that everyone should do things our way. Heck we don't even do it our way anymore. Just pointing out that this is not a program for increased immigration. The visa rules are the same, UNLESS you are an investor.

nico 17y ago
Crucially, they can kick you out of the country whenever they please, which is usually when you are laid off. In Brasil you would have time to look for alternate employment, and a better chance of finding it. They could (just like in the US), but they don't. Check my comment about my Colombian partner above. He also switched jobs several times before, with a couple months in between, before we met and started our company. What's the point in putting Brasil above Chile anyway? Maybe Brasil is a great country to go start a company, I wouldn't know. But the article, and this thread, are about Chile and the conditions the country has created (on purpose or not) for high tech companies.
- bilbo0s 17y ago
  My only point was that the article is presenting a program for increasing foreign investment, as though it were a program for increasing immigration. The title is, "Chile Wants Your Poor, Your Huddled Masses..." With such a title it appeared to me that the article was about immigration as well. This title invited me to research the issue. What I found was a program to increase foreign investment, which I admitted was laudable. What I did not find was a program to increase immigration, and intellectual honesty demands that we point out this inconsistency in the article. Brasil was simply a convenient 'case in point' of what a reasonable immigration system would look like. Though I think the Brasilians could go further as well. As could our own country.
madair 17y ago
Your comment, while interesting in other respects, easily misleads someone to think that there isn't an immigration element available, which there clearly is. Okay, so it's not Brazil: "Imma let you finish, but Brazil has the best visa program of all time". Heheh.
- nico 17y ago
  Man, you made my day with that last comment!! I almost pissed my pants, hahaha.