[News] immigrant created a business is now ask to leave

[Chibibar]

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Econ...neur-creating-american-jobs/story?id=14857757

So basically (from the article) looks like the guy originally came with a student visa, graduated, started a business and trying to get a working visa legally and was denied (even after he started a business to create jobs)

That is odd. I think there is a missing story somewhere. Either that or our immigration system is so mess up that illegal immigrant can stay but people who are trying to do the legal way (and beneficial IMO) can't get a break?

 

[GasBandit]

It's practically gotten where immigration is like software piracy - you might as well be illegal, because officious pricks with no concept of reality are working day and night to make it as punishing as possible to be legal.

 

[strawman]

As of 2006, the United States accepts more legal immigrants as permanent residents than all other countries in the world combined.

via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_the_United_States

We do not have a visa for this person: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_visas

As stated we have the H1-B, which is probably what he applied for, but it has special rules which are meant to prevent non-citizens from taking jobs from citizens.

We don't have an entrepreneur job classification - in other words he was rejected based on the idea that his job as CEO could easily be filled by a citizen.

I wonder if he managed things differently, working with an immigration lawyer, would he have been able to arrange his job description and company organization such that he would have been given a visa.

But we obviously need immigration reform. I still don't buy the argument that if we open the floodgates professionals and laborers both will be living on the streets. There are too many busybodies with their fingers in the pot.

But even with all that - we allow more immigrants into the US per year than all other countries combined, so it's not as though we're stingy. He simply wasn't one of the 85,000 people chosen for an H1-B visa this year.

 

[Chibibar]

via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_the_United_States

We do not have a visa for this person: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_visas

As stated we have the H1-B, which is probably what he applied for, but it has special rules which are meant to prevent non-citizens from taking jobs from citizens.

We don't have an entrepreneur job classification - in other words he was rejected based on the idea that his job as CEO could easily be filled by a citizen.

I wonder if he managed things differently, working with an immigration lawyer, would he have been able to arrange his job description and company organization such that he would have been given a visa.

But we obviously need immigration reform. I still don't buy the argument that if we open the floodgates professionals and laborers both will be living on the streets. There are too many busybodies with their fingers in the pot.

But even with all that - we allow more immigrants into the US per year than all other countries combined, so it's not as though we're stingy. He simply wasn't one of the 85,000 people chosen for an H1-B visa this year.

I can understand that, so basically, he just need to get a slick lawyer and "make shit up" on the application so he can get process instead of being a straight up guy and do the normal way.

 

[LordRendar]

Oh snap....

 

[Hailey Knight]

I can understand that, so basically, he just need to get a slick lawyer and "make shit up" on the application so he can get process instead of being a straight up guy and do the normal way.

I can't get into details with this stuff since it involves my job, but... yeah, that's pretty much it.

Right now, immigration law has gotten to the point where it's about putting up more and more filters and rules to limit people from getting in, no matter what the situation, no matter whether it makes sense or not. It isn't about whether you have a good case--it's about turning people around, wherever possible, because the country's apparently full.

The topic of this thread is actually pretty common, so I'm not sure why it's just getting reported here. And this isn't the worst of it. You don't wanna know what people have been turned down from in some asylum cases. It's not about justice or common sense--it's about the law, and those laws will continue to be twisted to get further from justice and common sense so long as that is truly the lawmakers' interest (which it apparently is).