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If you immigrated legally as an adult, to the US or another more advantaged country, tell us what it was like, in terms of the legal process and logistics.
Pull up the respective country's immigration site and do your research. In general it involves several forests of trees in form of paperwork, fees and patience; often a good measure of frustration. Depending on country and visa - rinse and repeat every so often.
My parents emigrated to the UK in the 70's. They were practically invited, the UK had agents around the world sourcing workers as more people were emigrating from the UK than arriving and despite the IMF crisis of 1976 there was a serious shortage of workers. One of these agencies was in the small city in the coffee growing region of Colombia called Armenia which worked well due to the 60's coffee slump. They were given the infamous stamp of 'Indefinite Leave to Remain' within 2 years and unlike others they never sought benefits or even social housing, which is a bit annoying when you see people from all over the EU and the world come and get first come, first serve. At least it was like that pre-financial crash.
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Pull up the respective country's immigration site and do your research. In general it involves several forests of trees in form of paperwork, fees and patience; often a good measure of frustration. Depending on country and visa - rinse and repeat every so often.
This is not for "research", it is for the human stories of the patience and frustration that immigration sites pretend do not exist. If I asked what it's like to go to prison, would you say look up the criminal code?
I have not done so but came close a couple years ago and would guess about 50/50 that we do it in the future.
It seemed like it would be a reasonably straightforward process. My wife is a "citizen" and our children and I would be defaulted into permanent residence status immediately after submitting the proper paperwork, which didn't appear too cumbersome. The main pain point was lack of information/conflicting information on any official websites. This was alleviated somewhat easily by a face-to-face meeting at the immigration office to ask pertinent questions.
I immigrated to West Germany late 70's and don't remember having a hard time at all.
Now, immigrating to the US mid 90's was a different story - costly, lengthy, tedious, tiring and discouraging. Not really worth it. Could write a book about it.
To Canada from US, 1962. My employer said tell them at the border you have a job. I did and they asked me a few other questions, and gave me a permanent landed immigrant card on the spot. Took maybe a half hour. Little border crossing with only one agent on duty, late at night.
To Canada from US, 1962. My employer said tell them at the border you have a job. I did and they asked me a few other questions, and gave me a permanent landed immigrant card on the spot. Took maybe a half hour. Little border crossing with only one agent on duty, late at night.
I don't even know how my -slovak- gf could live in France without me and my help to face the wall of french administration... Carte Vitale, Banque, CAF, rent a flat, various insurances, gas, electricity, phone, everything linked to the car you own [...] ... it's already quite a thing for an aware french.
I'd say, the number of papers to fill grows exponentially with the number of day...
Nb(papers) = exp(days)
When finally everything is done and you are in the track, you can't find a job because you don't speak french. So ... we decided to move to luxembourg
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