For some unknown reason, the U.S. immigration policies discriminate against northern European immigrants, especially those from the UK and Canada. Years ago, I tried to hire a Canadian engineer and gave up after spending almost a year on paperwork. My company also had a British engineer who worked for us in Kuwait. We could not even get him a work permit to work in the U.S.
Thomas E. Potter Telephone: (713) 215-2877 Fax: (713) 215-2551 Mobile: (832) 794-0536 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David Brodbeck Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 4:26 PM To: Mercedes mailing list Subject: [MBZ] OT: Immigration (was: Re: ABC news item on veg oil in USdiesels) On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 13:15:53 -0500, Potter, Tom E wrote > Things have changed a bit. It has been years since I looked into > emigrating to Australia or NZ. I do not fault them for their > policies. I wish we had a coherent immigration policy. Canada's policies seem interesting. They're pretty selective, but they also seem to go out of their way to make it easy to apply. I know a few people who have gone through the process of immigrating into the U.S., and it was an incredibly complex, bureaucratic process that required hiring a lawyer. There were a lot of hoops to jump through, and at nearly every stage the INS office would lose some critical piece of paperwork and claim it had never been submitted. One gentleman I know who moved here was supposed to get his green card over a year ago and is still trying to get the INS to admit they lost the paperwork. They told him the only way to get the status of his application is to file a Freedom Of Information Act request! _______________________________________ For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://striplin.net/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_striplin.net
