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Forum: US Immigration, Citizenship and Visas
Apr 17th 2013, 6:12 pm
Replies: 149
Views: 7,826
Posted By Steve_

Re: Immigration reform

Well that was a fun read. Lot of stuff in there.

Some of the highlights:

There will be a higher quota for H-1B but it will be harder to get, tougher labour certification and dependent employers...
Forum: US Immigration, Citizenship and Visas
Apr 17th 2013, 3:26 pm
Replies: 149
Views: 7,826
Posted By Steve_

Re: Immigration reform

Text of bill: http://www.schumer.senate.gov/forms/immigration.pdf
Forum: US Immigration, Citizenship and Visas
Apr 16th 2013, 4:58 pm
Replies: 149
Views: 7,826
Posted By Steve_

Re: Immigration reform

http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/16/17768678-details-of-sweeping-senate-immigration-plan-revealed?lite



So essentially some form of conditional permanent resident status, which is...
Forum: US Immigration, Citizenship and Visas
Apr 16th 2013, 4:49 pm
Replies: 149
Views: 7,826
Posted By Steve_

Re: Immigration reform

The UK is in better shape than Japan, and it has a lower foreign-born population than either Canada or Australia - both of which are in better shape economically than the UK at present. So your...
Forum: US Immigration, Citizenship and Visas
Apr 9th 2013, 5:27 pm
Replies: 149
Views: 7,826
Posted By Steve_

Re: Immigration reform

You only have to look at Japan to see where really tight immigration laws lead, the population there is declining rapidly, their economy has been stagnant for many years now.

Or look at Canada,...
Forum: US Immigration, Citizenship and Visas
Apr 9th 2013, 5:22 pm
Replies: 149
Views: 7,826
Posted By Steve_

Re: Immigration reform

I think the idea of the W category is actually to temporarily regularize the status of people who are in the US illegally while they apply for LPR status, which is why I am a bit puzzled about the...
Forum: US Immigration, Citizenship and Visas
Apr 9th 2013, 5:16 pm
Replies: 149
Views: 7,826
Posted By Steve_

Re: Immigration reform

Are you joking? The US is a case study in badly written laws.

When huge numbers of people don't follow the law, that's usually an indication there's something wrong with the law. Laws are a...
Forum: US Immigration, Citizenship and Visas
Apr 9th 2013, 5:13 pm
Replies: 149
Views: 7,826
Posted By Steve_

Re: Immigration reform

Scottsdale has the highest average age per capita of any US city.
Forum: US Immigration, Citizenship and Visas
Apr 9th 2013, 5:11 pm
Replies: 149
Views: 7,826
Posted By Steve_

Re: Immigration reform

That's from 2002, tax rates in California have gone up significantly since then. They did put up sales taxes in Arizona as well but I think it has expired now (or is about to).
Forum: US Immigration, Citizenship and Visas
Mar 27th 2013, 12:06 am
Replies: 149
Views: 7,826
Posted By Steve_

Re: Immigration reform

California has the highest State income taxes in the US (although you pay more in NYC because of the local income tax) plus it also has higher corporation taxes, that does make a difference. Phoenix...
Forum: US Immigration, Citizenship and Visas
Mar 26th 2013, 6:13 pm
Replies: 149
Views: 7,826
Posted By Steve_

Re: Immigration reform

I think the lower taxes in Arizona though will win out over California in the long term. Also Joe Arpaio is the real problem but he can't live forever (he's 80).

What's happening in American it...
Forum: US Immigration, Citizenship and Visas
Mar 19th 2013, 7:50 pm
Replies: 149
Views: 7,826
Posted By Steve_

Re: Immigration reform

So that implies more visas available to people in third and fourth preference family-based immigration and also EB-3 unskilled worker.

Because it won't happen in ten years without more people...
Forum: US Immigration, Citizenship and Visas
Mar 19th 2013, 7:47 pm
Replies: 149
Views: 7,826
Posted By Steve_

Re: Immigration reform

Mmm, and people who quote this section generally have never bothered to read it, read a bit further, i.e. 8 USC 1325(b). Civil penalty not exceeding $250 in many cases. So yes illegal but not...
Forum: US Immigration, Citizenship and Visas
Mar 12th 2013, 8:49 pm
Replies: 149
Views: 7,826
Posted By Steve_

Re: Immigration reform

I've stayed in tons of hotels and rented accommodation in Switzerland, I can't ever remember it being reported to the police. I remember in Lausanne once they wanted to see my passport but that was...
Forum: US Immigration, Citizenship and Visas
Mar 12th 2013, 5:48 pm
Replies: 149
Views: 7,826
Posted By Steve_

Re: Immigration reform

Pfft, I remember various occasions when I was in Switzerland and the news was full of people moaning about illegal immigrants from Albania, Kosovo and the former Yugoslavian nations.

There was a...
Forum: US Immigration, Citizenship and Visas
Feb 5th 2013, 6:05 pm
Replies: 149
Views: 7,826
Posted By Steve_

Re: Immigration reform

Still no bill for that either, Schumer is supposed to introduce a bill for the background checks, hasn't done it.

It's going to be endless arguments about "sequestration."
Forum: US Immigration, Citizenship and Visas
Feb 5th 2013, 5:27 pm
Replies: 149
Views: 7,826
Posted By Steve_

Re: Immigration reform

Still waiting on the bill...
Forum: US Immigration, Citizenship and Visas
Jan 30th 2013, 5:08 pm
Replies: 149
Views: 7,826
Posted By Steve_

Re: Immigration reform

There are only approximately 150,000 people per year granted LPR status in employment-based categories, period, so to assume that there are employers out there willing to file 50,000 I-140s purely...
Forum: US Immigration, Citizenship and Visas
Jan 30th 2013, 12:44 am
Replies: 149
Views: 7,826
Posted By Steve_

Re: Immigration reform

Yeah but they've got to fit the STEM visas under some sort of EB category, it will either be a new one or some modification of EB-3 most likely, e.g. EB-3 STEM skilled worker.

I don't know if it...
Forum: US Immigration, Citizenship and Visas
Jan 30th 2013, 12:38 am
Replies: 149
Views: 7,826
Posted By Steve_

Re: Immigration reform

All it appears to be saying in that blurb is that H-2A will be extended to the dairy industry. I'm sure they'll fiddle with it a bit more than that but it seems to be the gist of what they're on...
Forum: US Immigration, Citizenship and Visas
Jan 29th 2013, 6:25 pm
Replies: 149
Views: 7,826
Posted By Steve_

Re: Immigration reform

If they actually force everyone in the US illegally to wait until EVERYONE currently in the system gets their green card, then it will be decades before any are granted, so that means things like...
Forum: US Immigration, Citizenship and Visas
Jan 29th 2013, 6:18 pm
Replies: 149
Views: 7,826
Posted By Steve_

Re: Immigration reform

The bill proposed yesterday appears to simply be a consolidation of every half-baked idea that has been floating around Congress for the past ten years, here are the highlights:

- full labour...
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