H-1B: As immigration furor roils Silicon Valley, Canada smooths way for techies
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Re: H-1B: As immigration furor roils Silicon Valley, Canada smooths way for techies
#2As horrible as it sounds, in this specific respect, the current US administration has been really fantastic for Canada. More and more new grads are choosing to stay in the country and work with local tech companies, and we're experiencing a reverse brain-drain like never before.
Re: H-1B: As immigration furor roils Silicon Valley, Canada smooths way for techies
#3True story, I know of many skilled folks who moved to Canada because residency in the U.S was just too painful.
Re: H-1B: As immigration furor roils Silicon Valley, Canada smooths way for techies
#4Are people with GCs screwed too? I've been postponing getting a citizenship, for no particular reason, but I'm now wondering if I should get on that just so that I don't somehow get bounced out of the country or get locked outside when I travel.
Re: H-1B: As immigration furor roils Silicon Valley, Canada smooths way for techies
#5Are people with GCs screwed too? I've been postponing getting a citizenship, for no particular reason, but I'm now wondering if I should get on that just so that I don't somehow get bounced out of the country or get locked outside when I travel.
As a Canadian (in the Bay Area) today, getting bounced out of the U.S is always at the back of my mind.
Re: H-1B: As immigration furor roils Silicon Valley, Canada smooths way for techies
#6> As the administration of President Donald Trump has increased scrutiny of H-1B visas
Has it? All that has been done is a study of potential H-1B reforms that is still under way. I'd bet that nothing changes in the next two years. The puppet masters wouldn't want it any other way.
Re: H-1B: As immigration furor roils Silicon Valley, Canada smooths way for techies
#7Canada's aggressively merit based immigration policy has clear advantages in terms of allowing talent in. That said Canadian tech firms still pay way too little.
Re: H-1B: As immigration furor roils Silicon Valley, Canada smooths way for techies
#8True story, I know of many skilled folks who moved to Canada because residency in the U.S was just too painful.
For what it's worth, I know many skilled folks (myself included) who moved from Canada to the US because there are more job prospects with significantly higher pay. I hope all these people make Canada more competitive since I'd like to move back at some point but right now, the US is more cost effective if you can get in.
Re: H-1B: As immigration furor roils Silicon Valley, Canada smooths way for techies
#9Are people with GCs screwed too? I've been postponing getting a citizenship, for no particular reason, but I'm now wondering if I should get on that just so that I don't somehow get bounced out of the country or get locked outside when I travel.
A friend of mine tells me that one of his biggest regrets from the past handful of years is not having applied for and received citizenship when President Obama was president. He has a misdemeanor (for something that almost every US citizen would consider trivial) from when he was a teenager but because of when it happened and what it is, naturalizing would require a waiver from USCIS in order to proceed (and to not be deported). President Obama's USCIS granted waivers for conduct so many years back almost as a matter of course. President Trump's USCIS--according to the two immigration lawyers my friend has consulted--has not only stopped granting the waivers, they refer applicants for the waivers instead to deportation proceedings. There's no one to advocate for people like him to be able to remain because he is a convicted criminal, even just of a minor offence, so he's been told to keep his head down and hope nobody investigates the dusty files.
But, assuming you are "clean," there are people to advocate for you so applying for citizenship should be a safe bet and would get you the guarantee of remaining in and traveling to and from the US for the rest of your life. If you intend to live here for the foreseeable future, I'd recommend giving it a go lest this administration decide to start trying to arbitrarily yank GCs.
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#10Are people with GCs screwed too? I've been postponing getting a citizenship, for no particular reason, but I'm now wondering if I should get on that just so that I don't somehow get bounced out of the country or get locked outside when I travel.
A friend of mine tells me that one of his biggest regrets from the past handful of years is not having applied for and received citizenship when President Obama was president. He has a misdemeanor (for something that almost every US citizen would consider trivial) from when he was a teenager but because of when it happened and what it is, naturalizing would require a waiver from USCIS in order to proceed (and to not…
Are there any downsides to getting one, outside of perhaps having to let go of one's other citizenships for countries that don't allow it?