New U.S. immigration rules spur more visa approvals for STEM workers

Post by aiisahik » Thu, Dec 28, 2023, 6:24 PM UTC

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For those confused: Unfortunately, the US focuses on your origin (where you were born) rather than your nationality. alisahik is an Australian citizen, but was not born there. My guess is he was born in India, which has an absurdly long queue in the US immigration process. Really sucks.

That's a feature, not a bug. Otherwise you could find X country that is loose with citizenship requirements and get around the US' per-country limit.

Post by jupp0r » Thu, Dec 28, 2023, 6:27 PM UTC

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Having worked in the EU and the US, here are some differences that I think are relevant for global employers: - The hiring pool is much smaller than in the US, one reason is probably demographics and lack of skilled immigration. This makes it less attractive to hire/grow there. - Labor regulation is much more strict. It's legally hard and expensive to lay off workers in Germany, for example. - Taxes are much higher t…

>Labor regulation is much more strict. It's legally hard and expensive to lay off workers in Germany, for example. Is a few months notice [0] too much to ask? You can fire anyone you want, you're just going to wait a little bit or pay their remaining salary if you want them gone immediately. There is nothing legally hard about it. The hardest part is probably that you have to physically mail the layoff notice, but no…

Post by mkii » Thu, Dec 28, 2023, 6:30 PM UTC

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Post by ink_13 » Thu, Dec 28, 2023, 6:31 PM UTC

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You don't have to look far, Canada has already implemented a point based system for granting permanent residence to skilled workers. It assigns scores to applicants based on education, skills, employment offer, language speaking ability, etc. I believe it can be a good starting point for a more objective selection criteria than the current system which is more based on luck. https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refug…

Isn't Canada full of foreign PhDs driving taxis because they qualify for permanent residence on points but then can't get jobs because employers want "Canadian work experience"? Canada also has a major housing crisis due to not building enough housing for population growth (which is entirely immigration, Canada's population would shrink without it). Doesn't seem their system works very well in practice. At least the…

Post by aiisahik » Thu, Dec 28, 2023, 6:34 PM UTC

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How is it a win for the United States if American companies are employing less people in the country, and instead are paying remote workers who pay taxes elsewhere?

The US doesn’t understand the social burden of integrating an immigrant, and the resulting social conflict. Meanwhile, the prospective immigrant gets to stay in their homeland (most don’t really want to leave, money aside). If tax dollars are the issue, just tax the company.