Re:Hundreds march in Singapore against website licensing regime
by PhantomGremlin on Sunday June 09, 2013 @09:02PM
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Good point. Even by the time Brin entered in 1979, the rules of immigration had changed. Brin got in easily because we had special rules for Jewish families trying to get out of the Soviet Union. More recently (in the 2000's) we did the same thing for certain persecuted people from Africa (a colleague helped sponsor a family of these; sadly I don't remember the exact nationality).
But what happened to the "traditional" method of high tech immigration? I.e. come here for grad school, then stay. Is that all H1B stuff? I know quite a few people who came here for grad school and then stayed to work in high tech. They are now citizens. Their children are native born Americans.
It doesn't anymore. Brin entered in 1979, and Grove in 1957.
Some extremely talented people (for example, one worked with Anders Hejlsberg developing C#) are still stuck in the extremely long green card process. And, other than H1B, I don't know of a decent way to get a work visa in the U.S. (forget about actually inmigrating).
Compare to Canada, where I know there's a sane system for entering, it's still bureaucratic, but at least it's clear.
Australia is even more open. And while Europe is heterogeneous in its inmigration policies, it's far better than the U.S.