Hi Peter! I’m a highly skilled engineer and reasonably accomplished entrepreneur (founder of a VC-backed startup that is still alive but hasn’t taken off, and I no longer work there). I’m a natural born citizen of Sweden and I live there. I’d like to emigrate to the US, with citizenship as the goal. I can spend a bit of money on it, but I’m not wealthy. What’s my best bet? What would you say is the probability of suc…
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#62Are we still having interviews for EB1-B during I-485 filings, given the pandemic?
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#63I have a job offer from Microsoft in Vancouver and might move there after the pandemic ends. I am Indian citizen residing in India. The main challenge however is that I am disabled (quadriplegic) and I would be needing a caregiver to travel with me to Canada. I understand that there used to be a caregiver visa, for Canada, which was discontinued back in 2019. So my question really is, is there a way in which I can br…
I can't comment on Canadian immigration but I can share the names of some good providers in Canada if you'd like. Just email me.
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#64Hey Peter, Thank you so much for doing this! Im a German citizen living in Mexico. Since I have been to Iran I no longer qualify for ESTA and had to apply for a visa at the embassy here in Mexico City to visit the USA. My visa has been in processing for 2y now and I have not received any response other than "still in processing, we will be in touch". What do you recommend? Is there anything I can do to accelerate thi…
Never heard about not being eligible for ESTA after having travelled to Iran. WTF? What kind of weird rule is that?
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#66Can you explain the motivation behind preventing foreign engineers and scientists from entering the USA?
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#68Do you think it's a good idea to delay the application for Green Cards until after November to understand better the political landscape and also hopefully see a recovery of jobs given unemployment would affect PERMs?
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
If your talking about transnational corporations that have a base of operation in a given country then they made a financial decision to invest in people and workers from that country, not game the system by bringing in foreign workers for cheaper wages.
If you don't let non-americans into the us, they cant be employers of americans.
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#70How do you justify being an American whose work entierly revolves around taking jobs that Americans could have fulfilled and trying to give them to people who are not citizens, did not grow up here, and see America as nothing less than an institution they can use to get ahead?