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by AE9283F6D36A 16d ago
All of this sounds like a win-win for the US and you: You don't like their policy and they don't want you in the country.
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by AE9283F6D36A 17d ago
> Could we stop meaningless language policing? The law of your new country is already taking care of that. There's a clear legal definition to "refugee" in Canada. You aren't one: you are an economic migrant. > Eve
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by AE9283F6D36A 17d ago
> Yet I ended up surprisingly being denied entry by the US CBP Did it have anything to do with failing a background check? Often, denials aren't as "surprising" as they seem.
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by AE9283F6D36A 17d ago
H1B reform has nothing to do with skin color.
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by AE9283F6D36A 19d ago
I suspect the real answer to that is that we'll need 10x less engineers than right now long term.
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by AE9283F6D36A 19d ago
> I don’t see how it makes economic sense for Canada at that point It doesn't. Look at immigration numbers from 2000 to 2026 and overlay them with productivity per capita and GDP per capita.
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by AE9283F6D36A 19d ago
> highly skilled foreigners. All of whom would have no problem securing an O-1. The H-1B is a mess, in no small part because you can have world-class contributors and low-skill, entry-level positions applying for the same visa.
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by AE9283F6D36A 19d ago
> I mean Canada has jumped so many times in last 8-10 years with these express residencies, hiring H1B laid off workers, grabbing people who are stuck with travel restrictions to US I'd have thought they be half way to the moon. Wha
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by AE9283F6D36A 19d ago
That's 2+ years of full-time school. Residential electrical work has little to do with electrical engineering.
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by AE9283F6D36A 19d ago
The big problem is that when issuing immigrant visas, the Canadian government uses a point system (age, degree, etc.) that never actually checks for employability. In other words, it doesn't ask, "Is someone willing to pay Canadia
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by AE9283F6D36A 19d ago
> US tech refugees Could we hold off on using the term "refugee" here? My partner works with actual refugees. We're talking about a 12 year old Ukrainian girl who last saw her father comatose in a hospital bed with both le