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Re:Laid Off, Now What? by titanomachy on Sunday September 20, 2020 @01:45PM (#24535683)
It wouldn't be so bad if Indians and Chinese could actually immigrate. They have to stay in this precarious H1B state indefinitely, since getting a green card is effectively impossible for people from those countries.
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Re:Laid Off, Now What? by stack_underflow on Sunday September 20, 2020 @04:24PM (#24537093)
Hell, I'm Canadian and I also bucket into the India group since I was born there. Doesn't seem to matter that I was less than a year old when my parents immigrated to Canada either.

I don't have high hopes for ever receiving a green card: https://medium.com/@happy_sushi_roll/the-endless-wait-for-a-...

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Re:Laid Off, Now What? by distant_hat on Monday September 21, 2020 @02:42AM (#24540510)
yea, its more of a quirk of where you were born rather than nationality though both are almost often the same. I have an Indian friend who was born in Iran because his dad was working there when he was born. He lived in Iran less than a year but got his green card in less than 3 months.
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Re:Laid Off, Now What? by 908B64B197 on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @01:41PM (#24557535)
Also because you are a citizen of India no?

I mean, it wouldn't be fair if folks could simply skip the line by going to a third country.

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