Re:America’s Need for Skilled Immigrants Isn’t Going Away
by njarboe on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @01:52PM
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How about allocating some large number of 6 year work visas by a pure auction? The visa goes with the person, they can work anywhere, and after the visa is up can be a US citizen with minimal hassle. Employers could pay the fee for people to come and work for them, if they like, with a claw-back clause, if necessary. It would be interesting to see what the price would be for such a visa.
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Re:America’s Need for Skilled Immigrants Isn’t Going Away
by klipt on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @02:54PM
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> The visa goes with the person, they can work anywhere, and after the visa is up can be a US citizen with minimal hassle.
You basically described a green card (except it's nominally five years to citizenship, not six).
Re:America’s Need for Skilled Immigrants Isn’t Going Away
by njarboe on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @08:05PM
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Yes. A green card auction would be great. Expand it to some large number and get rid of all the huge variety of visas and paths to citizenship. Maybe half or more of all immigration to the US could go this route.
After some years of high demand and high prices, I imagine that the price would drop to some stable level. When that happened, we might have an opportunity to bring some sanity to the illegal immigration problem in the US. In some more sane world, both parties might agree that a person that can prove they have been in the US for some number of years can pay for a green card at the auction rate (gov financing available).