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Which would be very quickly struck down by the Supreme Court, like many of the other levies/duties that have been attempted to be applied on new residents from other states.
Would like to read more about this, can you provide a source?
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#122I've worked in this industry for a while, helping people immigrate to Canada, and one interesting thing I've experienced are newcomers that don't want their former peers following them. They left for a different way of life and don't want the past recreated in their new home. For myself I tend to agree - I want to help those that believe moving to my home country will improve their lives, while at the same time want…
"I've worked in this industry for a while, helping people immigrate to Canada"
You still working in this? Would like to have a chat if possible.
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#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
Signing leases and spending a lot of time somewhere kind of means you live there. And if you live there, then you start to have a reasonable claim to the rights and privileges of a citizen. I'm not saying that's bad, but countries typically want some control over this process.
Great point. If you stay somewhere for such a long time, you are much more likely than the average tourist to use government services, meaning you start to consume other people's tax dollars. As such, it makes a lot of sense for the government to charge you lots of money extra for a longer stay, which is what most of them do.
Not all concerns are purely economic. If you live in a city multiple years, you might want to participate in an election, for instance.
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#124Still don’t understand why I can’t just move to another country... I have a degree, no criminal records. But I need visas, permits, etc. Why all this difficulties?
> Still don’t understand why I can’t just move to another country... I have a degree, no criminal records. But I need visas, permits, etc. Why all this difficulties? If you are living in first world country, you should know that you still have it very very easy. To some, a chance to move is a once in a lifetime opportunity.
Your comment reminds me of the Abdi and the Golden Ticket TAL story.
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#125I've worked in this industry for a while, helping people immigrate to Canada, and one interesting thing I've experienced are newcomers that don't want their former peers following them. They left for a different way of life and don't want the past recreated in their new home. For myself I tend to agree - I want to help those that believe moving to my home country will improve their lives, while at the same time want…
"I've worked in this industry for a while, helping people immigrate to Canada" You still working in this? Would like to have a chat if possible.
Canadian immigration is rather straightforward and all avenues are well described on the IRCC website.
If you still have questions I'd recommend the ImmigrationCanada and/or IWantOut subreddits. You can get excellent advice there. If you do your homework and work out the possible avenues applicable to your personal situation they are more than happy to help.
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#126I've worked in this industry for a while, helping people immigrate to Canada, and one interesting thing I've experienced are newcomers that don't want their former peers following them. They left for a different way of life and don't want the past recreated in their new home. For myself I tend to agree - I want to help those that believe moving to my home country will improve their lives, while at the same time want…
"I've worked in this industry for a while, helping people immigrate to Canada" You still working in this? Would like to have a chat if possible.
I'm not operating my consultancy anymore or holding the consulting license, I moved on to making software for the industry but don't have anything to offer at the moment. If you're <=32 look up Express Entry for skilled workers. You can email me and I can answer some general questions. blake@blakesieders.ca
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#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
"I've worked in this industry for a while, helping people immigrate to Canada" You still working in this? Would like to have a chat if possible.
Canadian immigration is rather straightforward and all avenues are well described on the IRCC website. If you still have questions I'd recommend the ImmigrationCanada and/or IWantOut subreddits. You can get excellent advice there. If you do your homework and work out the possible avenues applicable to your personal situation they are more than happy to help.
You can keep your costs down by doing a lot of your own research, but there are still shortcuts and pitfalls that you can be made aware of by getting some professional advice. My recommendation is having a paid consult at the beginning of your research, and then near the end before submitting an application. The people of forums can typically only talk about their own experience based on their own profile / program / timing, which will not be exactly like yours. I've cleaned up many people's application messes, (I'm not trying to solicit any business for myself.)
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#128First World Problem, I know, but: I don't understand why I should not be allowed to take a 2 year vacation in another country without having to leave every 6 months and pray the border agent doesn't find it suspicious that I keep coming back. I don't want to take someone's job, or milk the welfare system, and I would be a net positive to anywhere I decided to vacation (sales tax/VAT, property tax, hotel tax, income t…
Because not every country wants to be overflowing with expat techbros. I've seen some of this resentment in SE Asia. Foreigners work remotely from paradise, which is great for us -- but the locals see you filling up the nice restaurants and renting the best apartments and driving up the cost of living for locals who, unlike us, don't have many options about where they live.
Gentrification! Just less local
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#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
The people in CA have certain shared interests with the people of OK. They have, for instance, pooled their military resources together, so that if anyone invades CA, soldiers from OK will protect it the same as they would OK. To cement that special relationship, the people of those states have given each other certain privileges, such as being allowed to move freely between those states.
No, the people of CA have surrendered their ability to make these decisions to the State in exchange for certain benefits. The people in CA cannot, for instance, allow workers from London to freely immigrate despite their shared interests and mutual benefit. I'm not making a value judgement on that claim -- just pointing out that it's no different than if two or more countries were to subvert their provinces/cities/c…
>The people in CA cannot, for instance, allow workers from London to freely immigrate despite their shared interests and mutual benefit.
Right, part of the pact with OK is that they have ceded some rights to a common political body. Nothing you've said contradicts what I said.
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#130- Desire to migrate in Northern America up for the first time - U.S. still No. 1 desired destination for potential migrants - 18 countries attract two-thirds of all potential migrants worldwide
I'm ok with it as long as you come here and integrate, don't take welfare, and understand our Bill of Rights isn't a suggestion. We're done making "accommodations" on that stuff.