51–60 of 73 posts
While I love Canada, I really miss the Bay Area, where I lived the longest. But I made a mess of and failed to get my GC and now I won't ever get to live there no more. Been on a downward spiral lately.. but it's been great when it was going good. I was a software developer with minimal on the job training, btw, no degrees of any sort, sadly.
Ukraine(Donetsk) -> Poland I opened a company and send all my invoices from the company's name. I lose money on all the taxes but its worth it. As long as I make enough money I can stay in the country and in the future apply for permanent residence and citizenship.
Eritrea --> London,UK I am still waiting my first experience on a plane. I haven't been on a plane yet. crossing the border to neighbouring country took me about five days on my own. few hours on the day but mostly on the night as you can imagine there are security on the border.crossing the sahara desert, the mediterranean sea and finally to UK. currently working as software developer.
I asked this question, because I want to move to Canada, and seeing what some of you have gone through to get to migrate to another country, makes me realise how fortunate I am, and that I have no excuses if I don’t migrate to the country I really want to be in.
Thanks everyone.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wow one is definitely out of your hands. Can you expand on the martial law circumstances? Does something like that always automatically lead to resident status?
This must be referring to the 1981 declaration of martial law by Polish General Jaruzelski, following pressure from the Solidarity trade union and others. Due to Cold War politics, you can see the US might want to address this by allowing Poles stay in the US.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Student_Protection_Act...
In this case the automatic permanent resident status was created by a specific law; it wasn't a consequence of general legal principles.
The U.S. government does offer a relatively automatic asylum when people experience or fear certain kinds of persecution abroad, but the determination is supposed to be very individual and fact-intensive.
There was an exception to the detailed factual inquiry for Cubans: generally any Cuban who made it to the U.S. -- evading the U.S. Coast Guard, which was trying to prevent people from taking advantage of the policy -- would be given permanent resident status.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Which green card did you get, if you don't mind me asking?
Just the regular I-485? I'm not sure if there's more than one green card.
China: Applied for a job at a big name local company via the internet. Got paperwork and Z visa (if anyone's thinking about China, this is a must, as working illegally is taken much more seriously than in the past). The company provided dormitory style accommodation. If you're thinking of China today (that was 10 years ago) and do technology, the easiest way would be to get a job with a well known Western company suc…
I could deal with that if i would be interested in China,chinese language etc.
A your ago, crossing the Atlantic in about four weeks with a sailing boat. I actually had many problems cancelling my residency there because they could not believe I was leaving on a boat. The rules required a one way plane ticket. Its an island ! Good we left...
And because I have a EC passport I can just walk up to the local municipality and get residency.