UK has Tier 1 - Entrepreneur Visa where you can remain and run a company for 5 years. After 5 years, you can apply for extension for another 5 years or apply for settlement. You are judged based on your talent and not on where you were born.
"Tier 1 (General) visa 1. Overview You can no longer apply for or extend Tier 1 (General) visas." As far as I remember, this type of visa is abolished many years ago.
"Tier 1 (General)" was abolished. Instead, UK has introduced "Tier 1 - Entrepreneur" and "Tier 1 - Exceptional Talent" visas.
Incorrect. UK has Tier 1 - Entrepreneur Visa where you can remain and run a company for 5 years. After 5 years, you can apply for extension for another 5 years or apply for settlement.
Yeah but the UK is not exactly an investment/entrepneur-friendly economy any more. Brexit, at the rate it's going, will be either a hard Brexit or a chaotic one, and without a soft Brexit (i.e. access to the European market) all a potential investor has is the British market. Also, UK does not have a constitution and civil rights (e.g. right to privacy, to unrestricted, unfiltered Internet access) are being torn down…
Even before, there was no digital single market for services. The previous single market was only for manufactured goods. So that didn't affect startups in UK to be successful. We can expect the same after Brexit.
Right to Privacy is being eroded also in US with the new FTC rulings. So that is not a valid disadvantage.
Considering the recent events, Brexit if it ever happens, will be a Soft Brexit as the UK Govt doesn't anymore have the required mandate or support for a Hard Brexit that wrecks the economy.
> so you have merely increased the population. And often they're in they're twenties, meaning society didn't have to pay for the expensive first two decades of growing up. Basically a live is 8 decades, 4 decades of which are unproductive, and 4 decades are productive. If you get an immigrant, you get a 6 decades person that's unproductive for only 2 decades -- and some other society paid for those 2 other unproducti…
Median age for immigrants to America is 44. Median age for all Americans is 36. Sources: http://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/frequently-requested-... http://www.pewhispanic.org/2015/09/28/chapter-5-u-s-foreign-...
Thank you for backing up my point with some numbers.
In particular see the second link, the age pyramid, showing how there are very few people in the foreign-born population who are younger than 20.
And indeed, when you remove most of the population who are younger than twenty, the medium age of the group overall will increase.
>the left Oh, you're that guy. >Who do you think pays for the unintelligent people in the welfare society the left envisions? If there is one thing that is almost absolutely uncorrelated with IQ is income, so that twisted and repulsive worldview is immedeately shattered by contact with reality. > I do find it rather amusing the left complains that the only reason they don’t win is because of stupid people Show me whe…
I think you're right about the IQ. I believe Nate Silver addressed the fact that Trump voters were generally more well off and educated than supporters of Hillary and Bernie. Also, Democrat policy making going back to Ted Kennedy has favored poorly educated immigrants from Southeast Asia, Africa and South America in particular. This is a fact and worth researching if you're at all confused about it. Also, these immig…
>the left Oh, you're that guy. >Who do you think pays for the unintelligent people in the welfare society the left envisions? If there is one thing that is almost absolutely uncorrelated with IQ is income, so that twisted and repulsive worldview is immedeately shattered by contact with reality. > I do find it rather amusing the left complains that the only reason they don’t win is because of stupid people Show me whe…
I think you're right about the IQ. I believe Nate Silver addressed the fact that Trump voters were generally more well off and educated than supporters of Hillary and Bernie. Also, Democrat policy making going back to Ted Kennedy has favored poorly educated immigrants from Southeast Asia, Africa and South America in particular. This is a fact and worth researching if you're at all confused about it. Also, these immig…
Not a middle-income location and not from middle-class. I still managed to leave it, but you have no single idea how much effort and pain it cost me.
More power to you! But I hope you understand my point. The developed countries accept immigrants out of self-interest, not in order to help developing countries.
This is still not a good reason to set the bar so high that only few people from thousands can pass it.
The "left" is not a single person with a single position, by treating it as such, you're sealing yourself into a personal delusion about others that might make you feel good, but simply isn't accurate. And using derogatory terms like "welfare society" merely shows your own political bias. You know why the "left" confuses you, it's because you don't actually bother to try and understand them; you're happy simply mis-c…
The "right" has simply given up. Look at how the media portrays anyone with "traditional values". Turn on any HBO show to get a glimpse of the condescension (True Detective??). Attempts to shut down Chick-fil-A in various states. Courts that overturn propositions despite widespread support amongst voters even in the most liberal of states. Violent attacks at universities against non-liberal academics and speakers. I'…
The media? It depends on which media. Watch the Daily Show and you'll see conservatives getting bashed day in, day out. Tune into Fox News and you'll see the most vicious, 24/7 attack on the liberal bogeyman, and many outright lies and slander. No side can claim persecution. Nobody is a saint in this shitshow.
"Tier 1 (General) visa 1. Overview You can no longer apply for or extend Tier 1 (General) visas." As far as I remember, this type of visa is abolished many years ago.
"Tier 1 (General)" was abolished. Instead, UK has introduced "Tier 1 - Entrepreneur" and "Tier 1 - Exceptional Talent" visas.
Well, it's better than nothing. But I think that 99.99% of the current UK cirtizens would never meet these requirements.
'Startup visa' is one term for it, 'buy-a-visa' is another. I'm not sure that it's necessarily a bad idea; someone with vision and money may be able to contribute a lot to the economy. But handing them a visa for cash and a couple of years of supplying jobs feels very transactional. It says, "you can come here as long as you earn lots of money," not, "you can come here as long as you contribute lots to the economy."
There's a similar visa in South Korea, the D-8 visa, which requires you to invest 50M Won (roughly 50,000 USD), either in some business or to open another business, and some people have gotten frustrated that some have just invested for the visa and never done anything further as the government doesn't track beyond the initial investment. In this, and in the US case, the government should track to make sure it's not…
$50K? That's it?
Could you then go on to actually run a small business, out of a garage/workshop somewhere less expensive/in danger of incineration than Seoul, like Busan or Jeonju or Gwangju? It's kind of expensive to live in the US, and they have all these regulations and crap around some useful chemicals like hypophosphorous acid.
Increasing salaries needed for H1B was long overdue, obama should have fixed that as one of the first things. Trump, like him or not is taking a hard look at many of these visas. Scrapping the founders visa is not a bad idea there are plenty of other opportuninties to get into the US.
What a nonsequitor. First, the presence or absence of other immigration paths doesn't speak to the cost or benefit of the startup visa. Second, there wouldn't be so many H1B applicants if there were other ways into the US.
There are other ways into the US. E, L, O visas ex.