- Sep 29, 2000
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It can't be done legally for the majority of people who want to move to the US. Do you realize that the average Mexican, for instance, has damn near no way to get into the US? Well you may not want the low skilled uneducated ones anyway, but even for people who are skilled and educated there are still few doors to legal entry into the US, at least these days.
For instance I, a computer software "guy", has for all intents and purposes no way to become a permanent resident of the US. Barring rare circumstances the only way I can become one is through MrsSkoorb, and the only way she can become one is by us ponying up thousands of dollars in immigration and lawyers fees.
Unless you're lucky enough to be working in a sought after field like a nurse (and don't even for a second think that becoming a permanent resident is easy for quick or cheap for somebody like that), you have to live years of uncertainty while your greencard process carries though. And it can be broadsided at any moment. Lose your job? Probably have to start again (after being forced to leave the US since you no longer have that job).
Unless you have somebody in the US you can marry chances are it's probably just not even worth bothering unless your home country is a piece of garbage (and you can try and claim refugee status or something similar). I can say with almost total certainty that if we weren't already so far through the process (when in actual fact we haven't even started it but that's something else entirely), we'd have never come down here. The US is nice, but you guys SERIOUSLY have to fix your totally fugged up immigration processes. For those from good countries it's often not worth the effort, and for those from crappy countries where it is worth the effort congrats, you just got another low skilled uneducated laborer (who probably has to come in illegally anyway).
Skoorb rant over.
For instance I, a computer software "guy", has for all intents and purposes no way to become a permanent resident of the US. Barring rare circumstances the only way I can become one is through MrsSkoorb, and the only way she can become one is by us ponying up thousands of dollars in immigration and lawyers fees.
Unless you're lucky enough to be working in a sought after field like a nurse (and don't even for a second think that becoming a permanent resident is easy for quick or cheap for somebody like that), you have to live years of uncertainty while your greencard process carries though. And it can be broadsided at any moment. Lose your job? Probably have to start again (after being forced to leave the US since you no longer have that job).
Unless you have somebody in the US you can marry chances are it's probably just not even worth bothering unless your home country is a piece of garbage (and you can try and claim refugee status or something similar). I can say with almost total certainty that if we weren't already so far through the process (when in actual fact we haven't even started it but that's something else entirely), we'd have never come down here. The US is nice, but you guys SERIOUSLY have to fix your totally fugged up immigration processes. For those from good countries it's often not worth the effort, and for those from crappy countries where it is worth the effort congrats, you just got another low skilled uneducated laborer (who probably has to come in illegally anyway).
Skoorb rant over.
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