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Re: 60 Days to Find a Job or Leave the Country

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No country other than your country of origin owes you a right to stay.

It's not inhumane or something to have visa only for work and not for indefinite residency. If the work visa was defacto a permanent residency visa, no one would give it and no one would get it.

Re: 60 Days to Find a Job or Leave the Country

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post #4

No country other than your country of origin owes you a right to stay. It's not inhumane or something to have visa only for work and not for indefinite residency. If the work visa was defacto a permanent residency visa, no one would give it and no one would get it.

And your country owes you why?

Re: 60 Days to Find a Job or Leave the Country

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I sometimes wonder what the "right amount of time" for this would be. Surely 30 days is nowhere near enough. 60 days also feels like too little.

90 days is the typical tourist visa duration; that seems more reasonable as a minimum duration to me.

Does it need to be 180 days? 364? I just don't know, but 60 seems too low.

Re: 60 Days to Find a Job or Leave the Country

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post #4

No country other than your country of origin owes you a right to stay. It's not inhumane or something to have visa only for work and not for indefinite residency. If the work visa was defacto a permanent residency visa, no one would give it and no one would get it.

And your country owes you why?

That's the general social contract that most people have as their mental model: "If I pay my taxes and do my part, my children will get the standard benefits of citizenship".

Honestly, I'm not sure what use you see from asking this question.

Re: 60 Days to Find a Job or Leave the Country

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post #6

I sometimes wonder what the "right amount of time" for this would be. Surely 30 days is nowhere near enough. 60 days also feels like too little. 90 days is the typical tourist visa duration; that seems more reasonable as a minimum duration to me. Does it need to be 180 days? 364? I just don't know, but 60 seems too low.

It should increase with time.

90 days if you are let go during your first year of working in the country.

180 days if you have been working in the country for more than a year.

365 days if you have been working in the country for more than three years.

Re: 60 Days to Find a Job or Leave the Country

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post #6

I sometimes wonder what the "right amount of time" for this would be. Surely 30 days is nowhere near enough. 60 days also feels like too little. 90 days is the typical tourist visa duration; that seems more reasonable as a minimum duration to me. Does it need to be 180 days? 364? I just don't know, but 60 seems too low.

Not sure how feasible it would be, but the limit should be a runtime calculation depending on various factors (e.g. Median time it's taking to find a job nowadays).

A static time limit, I feel is wrong for somethimg that is so fluctuating. Especially in current climate.

Re: 60 Days to Find a Job or Leave the Country

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post #4

No country other than your country of origin owes you a right to stay. It's not inhumane or something to have visa only for work and not for indefinite residency. If the work visa was defacto a permanent residency visa, no one would give it and no one would get it.

And your country owes you why?

Because if it is attacked, you have to defend it. This obligation to your country gives you the right to stay in it.
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