Re:Trump administration announces overhaul of H1B visa progr...
by bdamm on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @07:33PM
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My understanding is that Canadian residency isn't particularly strict, but Canadian citizenship is very strict. Besides, most of the companies in question (e.g. Amazon, Google, Microsoft, etc) already have subsidiaries operating in Canada so employment via the Canadian subsidiary is not an issue.
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Re:Trump administration announces overhaul of H1B visa progr...
by pstrateman on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @07:41PM
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The program that allows anybody to apply for residence is called Express Entry.
They offer something like 4200 positions every 2 weeks, or about 100k per year.
My understanding is that unless you're at the very top of the list (it's score based) you're likely to be waiting a long time.
Edit: For example the last drawing required you have a score of 471 or above. A 28 year old Indian person with a CS degree and 6 years of job experience who has perfect English scores would only have 441 points.
Re:Trump administration announces overhaul of H1B visa progr...
by Izikiel43 on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @09:53PM
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You also have provincial programs which have different/maybe more lax requirements than express entry.
Once you get PR, citizenship is just 3 years away.
Re:Trump administration announces overhaul of H1B visa progr...
by digianarchist on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @01:49AM
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4 years effectively. It takes almost 12 months to process the citizenship application.