Toddsterpatriot
Diamond Member
That doesn't really solve the problem, which is your outdated immigration system which takes YEARS to approve applicants, and hasn't been updated since Reagan was in office. In other words, before electronic communications, or the ability to make application online, ever became possible.
For example: You can get "Landed Imigrant Status" to enter Canada, in as little as 6 months. It takes 7 to 33 months from the time you submit ALL of your paperwork, to get a "green card". That's nearly 3 years.
So here is what's happening. Highly educated professionals aren't emigrating to the USA. Highly educated professionals whose services are in high demand around the world, have their pick of countries who will welcome them with open arms and open pocket books.
If you want people who can contribute to GDP the moment they land on the tarmac, you're not going to get them. YOU have nothing to offer them but a bad time getting a green card, no universal health care, no top level public education system, no gun control, no mandated vacations, or maternity leave.
Talented, well educated doctor, engineers, architects, and business managers, will not move to the USA, because there are so many BETTER options available. Australia, New Zealand, Canada. Any first world nation is always looking for well educated talent. The USA used to be the "go to" nation if you wanted a country where the "sky was the limit". These days, you're the most difficult country to get into, and imigrants are now seen as the "enemy", stealing jobs from Americans.
You've shot yourselves in the foot - again.
For example: You can get "Landed Imigrant Status" to enter Canada, in as little as 6 months. It takes 7 to 33 months from the time you submit ALL of your paperwork, to get a "green card". That's nearly 3 years.
Do you need a green card in Canada to start a car theft ring?