I am a Canadian technical writer who is also a programmer and a graphic designer. Is it easier for me to work in the states through a TN visa (which specifically mentions technical writers)? I've never tried looking in the US but I've always wondered if that would help ease some of the visa issues.
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#92Is Trump’s plan to bring merit-based immigration going to affect country-based quotas?
In fact on my reading it implements a cap for spouses and children for family based immigration.
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#93Does the current COVID restrictions/situation, present a challenge to justify someone's re-entry into the US for work, as employees can technically 'work from home' which is technically possible from abroad? (Asking as a TN holder, Mexican national, visa sticker valid for various months still). Planning to travel to be back in (flying, commercial), to reduce uncertainty and be ready for an eventual return to office,…
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#94What are the options for starting a company?
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#95I had my O1 application approved by USCIS in early March. I still haven't been able to visit the US embassy here in Sweden for the final interview - they've shut down processing non-immigrantion visas due to COVID. Any idea when US embassies will open up again?
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#96How 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?
What is sad about this comment is how the author define and American. USA is a country that is built by immigrant (I am not talking about the CEO of big tech companies, I am talking about your grand-grand parents who came here a few generations ago) How do you justify the people who let you ancestors to immigrate there being Americans whose work... (replace the rest with your own comment!)
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#97On H1/H1-B. What are the options for starting a company?
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#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
What is sad about this comment is how the author define and American. USA is a country that is built by immigrant (I am not talking about the CEO of big tech companies, I am talking about your grand-grand parents who came here a few generations ago) How do you justify the people who let you ancestors to immigrate there being Americans whose work... (replace the rest with your own comment!)
50% of the US population came from the original founding stock of the country in 1990. America was not made great immigrants it was made great by British (plus some European) settlers that spoke English and followed Protestant Christian values.