Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 22, 2003 11:19 PM
I enjoyed the article too.
Re: other posts: Contrary to popular belief in the U.S., there are a lot of good people the government does not let come here. My wife is from China, so I've seen some of what goes on here.
If you want to go to school in the U.S. you have to be accepted at a university *before* you can get even get a visa to come here and do it.
Since sometime in the Clinton administration, if you did not have enough "binding ties" to your country of origin, i.e., a house, a spouse, a bank account, the U.S. will not even issue you a tourist visa to *visit*, out of an unrealistic fear, imho, that you'll stay in the U.S. illegally.
So, "how much can a ticket to the US cost" is not an answer. The plane ticket is the smallest and easiest part of moving to the U.S...
How did the economy and work environment in the U.S. get to as good as it is (even these days...)? From people staying here and working! Africa will never get there if all the good programmers just leave. That is not to say that I'd blame them if they did...
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 22, 2003 11:19 PMRe: other posts: Contrary to popular belief in the U.S., there are a lot of good people the government does not let come here. My wife is from China, so I've seen some of what goes on here.
If you want to go to school in the U.S. you have to be accepted at a university *before* you can get even get a visa to come here and do it.
Since sometime in the Clinton administration, if you did not have enough "binding ties" to your country of origin, i.e., a house, a spouse, a bank account, the U.S. will not even issue you a tourist visa to *visit*, out of an unrealistic fear, imho, that you'll stay in the U.S. illegally.
So, "how much can a ticket to the US cost" is not an answer. The plane ticket is the smallest and easiest part of moving to the U.S...
How did the economy and work environment in the U.S. get to as good as it is (even these days...)? From people staying here and working! Africa will never get there if all the good programmers just leave. That is not to say that I'd blame them if they did...
- An American
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