It's not descrimination, there are caps as to how many people from a certain country can immigrate to the US. There are annual caps for certain visas and there is a 5 year cap for immigrations, something like 50 000 per year for 5 years puts a halt on open immigration.
-------------- Original message -------------- > 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! > > _______________________________________ > For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ > For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://striplin.net/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_striplin.net > > _______________________________________ > For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ > For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://striplin.net/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_striplin.net From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Sep 26 17:20:35 2005 Received: from sun.ebtech.net ([206.186.35.25]) by server1.arterytc1.net with esmtps (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.52) id 1EJweZ-0005Nv-IG for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 26 Sep 2005 17:20:35 +0000 Received: from oemcomputer (d148.pm3-e.ebtech.net [206.186.34.148]) by sun.ebtech.net (8.12.3/8.12.1) with SMTP id j8QHOWTe000996 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Mon, 26 Sep 2005 13:24:40 -0400 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "BenzBarn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mercedes mailing list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 13:05:24 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.85.1/1097/Wed Sep 21 14:56:51 2005, clamav-milter version 0.71 X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Antivirus-Scanner: Clean mail though you should still use an Antivirus Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: Immigration (was: Re: ABC news item on veg oil inUSdiesels) X-BeenThere: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.6 Precedence: list Reply-To: Mercedes mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Id: Mercedes mailing list <mercedes_striplin.net.striplin.net> List-Unsubscribe: <http://striplin.net/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_striplin.net>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Archive: <http://striplin.net/pipermail/mercedes_striplin.net> List-Post: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Subscribe: <http://striplin.net/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_striplin.net>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 17:20:36 -0000 My sister has been living in LA since 1977 and is still a Canadian citizen. She has to apply for a green card every few years and they interview her and her husband in separate rooms. Everything down to what kind of tooth paste they use better be right. We may have free trade with the US but it's not always fair trade. Many US trade and/ or domestic polices show a particular protectionist slant and a certain level of distain for your northern neighbours. With Toronto being the most cosmopolitan city in the world I guess the feeling is it's a nest of vipers slipping through the back door.
