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by throwmex 7y ago
Canada is an English speaking country except Québec. Why would a highly skilled immigrant learn yet another language to immigrate to Netherlands, if given a choice between an English speaking country and non English one ?
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by throwmex 7y ago
You must be one of the following ? 1.You have an outstanding student loan which you are paying off with a non US salary. 2. You were on a scholarship. 3. Rich.
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by throwmex 7y ago
I agree & I immigrated to Canada within an year of graduation and is now a permanent resident of Canada. US H1B & OPT is BS. Students from India and China should tread carefully. All this trouble and high tuition fees will land you
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by throwmex 7y ago
Tangential anecdata:- I know H1B workers who paid a "monthly % of their salary" to their Indian managers for bringing/sending them to the US on an H1B visa.
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by throwmex 7y ago
> One autorick-shaw driver was pulled over by a policeman in the middle of the night who said he could go if he was "taken care of". The driver gave him the note instead. The policeman was shocked but smiled and let him go. Too
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by throwmex 7y ago
You said you have 10 year wait for green card. So you must be either from India or China. Canada's express entry is the best option for you if you can sacrifice a pay cut. All other countries are turning anti immigrant nowadays. So tre
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by throwmex 7y ago
What if I don't have my face as my profile picture ? Will I be denied entry at the border because the officer cannot "verify" that the FB profile belongs to me ? I can forsee many idiosyncratic incidents waiting to happen in
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by throwmex 7y ago
No one will bother. Because this does not affect citizens. Let's see how many will call their congressmen about this because it violates rights of non US citizens.
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New Social Media Question on DS-160 and DS-260 Visa Applications(immigrationgirl.com)
138 points by throwmex 7y ago|83 comments
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How the world's largest democratic election works(carnegieendowment.org)
1 points by throwmex 7y ago|0 comments
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by throwmex 7y ago
Thank you for considering this. This is what I am using to filter HN currently. https://github.com/sid-kap/hackernews-filter
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by throwmex 7y ago
Is is too much of an ask if you can add a filter option? For example I do not want to see post titles containing a certain keyword or from a certain popular domain.
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by throwmex 7y ago
As an Indian, I too had this WTF moment. It makes me wonder why paper is still used in the western world. Makes one wonder if there is a TP lobby out there ? We used to make jokes what if a TP user have diarrhea, how many trees will that be
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by throwmex 8y ago
Isn't it changing in Canada now. Express entry is reeling in talents from US and around the world with its merit based system. LMIA based Temporary skilled foreign worker visa applications are going downhill. The exception there is Que
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by throwmex 8y ago
Ex H1B who immigrated to Canada here. American Express does the same thing too in Phoenix,Arizona. Salary is posted as a range in a low traffic break room. The range is 65K to 110K. That's a broad range. So the actual salary given is p