It's not just a tendency, it's official. The U.S. has reverted to an old standard whereby you cannot obtain a work visa if there are sufficient numbers of qualified persons in the U.S. already, for the job (and I believe they assess this by broad national job categories, not geographically, for example).
There have traditionally been literally hundreds of thousands of Canadians working in Hollywood, in the tech sector, and (oddly enough) as teachers in the U.S., but it's tightened right down, including refusals to renew existing permits and even turning people on existing and valid permits away from re-entry at the border. Used to be that large employers with the right connections could pull strings to get around all this, but apparently not anymore. Mac or [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > For some unknown reason, the U.S. immigration policies discriminate > against northern European immigrants, especially those from the UK and > Canada. Years ago, I tried to hire a Canadian engineer and gave up after > spending almost a year on paperwork. My company also had a British > engineer who worked for us in Kuwait. We could not even get him a work > permit to work in the U.S. > > Thomas E. Potter > Telephone: (713) 215-2877 > Fax: (713) 215-2551 > Mobile: (832) 794-0536 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David Brodbeck > Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 4:26 PM > To: Mercedes mailing list > Subject: [MBZ] OT: Immigration (was: Re: ABC news item on veg oil in > USdiesels) > > > On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 13:15:53 -0500, Potter, Tom E wrote >> Things have changed a bit. It has been years since I looked into >> emigrating to Australia or NZ. I do not fault them for their >> policies. I wish we had a coherent immigration policy. > > Canada's policies seem interesting. They're pretty selective, but they > also > seem to go out of their way to make it easy to apply. > > I know a few people who have gone through the process of immigrating > into > the U.S., and it was an incredibly complex, bureaucratic process that > required hiring a lawyer. There were a lot of hoops to jump through, > and at > nearly every stage the INS office would lose some critical piece of > paperwork and claim it had never been submitted. One gentleman I know > who > moved here was supposed to get his green card over a year ago and is > still > trying to get the INS to admit they lost the paperwork. They told him > the > only way to get the status of his application is to file a Freedom Of > Information Act request!
