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Ask HN: How did you migrate to the country you are living in now?

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Re: Ask HN: How did you migrate to the country you are living in now?

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Almost UK to Denmark. The removal van comes tomorrow, my flight to Copenhagen is booked for Monday morning. I have a short term let organised.

Copenhagen airport is decent. I live across the bridge in Malmo, Sweden.

if it's not too personal, what's your plans for Denmark? :)

Re: Ask HN: How did you migrate to the country you are living in now?

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Indonesia -> USA

Got my first job in the USA fresh out of college, based on a recommendation from my high school programming friend that got his job here first. He got to finals of ACM programming competition in USA, and got hired almost on the spot.

Finally got my GC after 8 years of H1B & 3 more years of I-485. I think I'm quite lucky to be able to keep having jobs & maintained my H1B status during ups & downs of US economy.

Re: Ask HN: How did you migrate to the country you are living in now?

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post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just the regular I-485? I'm not sure if there's more than one green card.

There are different classifications, EB1, EB2, EB3, EB5, etc.. I'm wondering what you used as the founder of a startup (and who your lawyer was if it wasn't EB1 or EB5)

Ah, EB1.

Re: Ask HN: How did you migrate to the country you are living in now?

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Tokyo, Japan: Applied for an opening I spotted on Linkedin. Interviewed via skype over a few weeks. Got the job, got the standard engineer visa, and that was it.

Had you already passed JLPT?

I had zero Japanese. Rudimentary even now.

Re: Ask HN: How did you migrate to the country you are living in now?

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post #34

Poland -> USA Came on a six-month tourist visa, got locked out of return trip due to an ill-timed declaration of martial law back home. Silver lining was automatically receiving US resident status.

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?

The blanket residency grant was a political move by Reagan.

The circumstances were that most of Poland had joined an independent trade union, which is awkward for a Communist country that is theoretically run by the working class. You can wikipedia 'martial law in poland' and get all the context.

Re: Ask HN: How did you migrate to the country you are living in now?

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post #17

Gaborone, Botswana -> Johannesburg, South Africa. The year is 2001. I'm fresh out of varsity with a computer science degree and I'm stuck doing copywriting work for an ad agency because there is no semblance of an IT industry in Botswana (still isn't) I answer a software developer ad in a popular South African newspaper (for some odd reason we used to get them in Botswana too) but slyly leave out my current residenti…

Did you end up staying in South Africa or go somewhere else?

Ended up staying and have been ever since :-)
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