Archive for 'Canada'
Immigration: Thoughts on the Green Card Process - A Personal Story
Being a Canadian in the United States for the last nine years has been an interesting adventure, to say the least. Although our nations are neighbours, there can be two more different approaches to the same problem so close to each other.
I can’t claim to be an expert on how Canada processes new immigrants, but [...]
Posted: August 26th, 2008 under Canada, Commentary, Immigration.
Tags: Canada, EAD, economy, Green Card, H1, H1-B, Immigration, permanent residence, permanent resident, politics, roman empire, three-fifths, tn, TN-1
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Green Card: Man Allegedly Dies as a Result Of DHS Negligence
Ok, as someone who is waiting for his Green Card, the story of the treatment allegedly received by Hiu Lui Ng frightens me. [BoingBoing link here. NY Times here ]
My Green Card has been in process for more than three years. We are supposedly approaching the end of the long road. But how do I [...]
Posted: August 14th, 2008 under Canada, Immigration.
Tags: BoingBoing, detention, DHS, Green Card, Hiu Lui Ng, Immigration, NY Times
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Olympic Broadcasting: One Feed Does Not Serve Them All
In the community of voices I follow online, one of the continuing themes is the narrowness and antiquated coverage provided by NBC(I launched into a screed on the topic this weekend).
I have also heard that many people are using the tools at their disposal (open proxy servers being the most notable) to circumvent the geo-location [...]
Posted: August 12th, 2008 under Canada, Commentary.
Tags: bbc, cbc, Georgia, media, monopoly, NBC, Olympics, South Ossetia, sports, Zimbabwe
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1 for 1
This morning, the Canadian Dollar was briefly worth more than the US Dollar on international money markets.
Skating on the River Styx, anyone?
Technorati Tags: Canadian Dollar, US Dollar, currency trading, money, money markets
Posted: September 20th, 2007 under Canada.
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GREEN CARD: Run in circles, scream and shout
Well, now that I’m certified, the slope gets slippery very quickly.
We have until early August to get all of our docs to the lawyers before the August 17 deadline.
Many calls, pictures, doctors appointments, and huge expense.
Going to be a fun month.
Technorati Tags: Green Card, immigration
Posted: July 18th, 2007 under Canada, Immigration, Life.
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Green Card: I’m Certified
Well folks, I got the good news last night: I am Department of Labor Certified.
This means that I can now actually apply for a Green Card.
Oh yeah, and based on some of the other happenings in the world of US Immigration (here and here), I am part of the group that is either going to [...]
Posted: July 17th, 2007 under Canada, Immigration, Life.
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USCIS, Green Cards, and Greed: Your (United States Federal) Government at Work
It seems that more than the usual immigration backlog reduction process has been at work in the USCIS. There are two likely scenarios that appear to be running around immigration circles these days, regarding the Green Card slot tease that has turned into such a furore.
The first is that the Department of State, which issues [...]
Posted: July 14th, 2007 under Canada, Immigration, Life, RANTING.
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GREEN CARD: USCIS is apparently in deep trouble
I have been reading Greg Siskind’s blog, and he has many articles on the growing hue and cry over the USCIS Visa debacle. [here and here, as examples]
Based on everything I have read, I might benefit from this scam. However, it makes me ill to think that a group of bureaucrats broke their own rules [...]
Posted: July 13th, 2007 under Canada, Immigration, Life, RANTING.
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GREEN CARD: “It’s no fun, being a legal alien”
As many readers know, I am going through the process — if you call filing a bunch of paperwork and not hearing anything for 2 years a process — of obtaining Permanent Residency in the United States, often referred to as the Green Card.
This morning, on NPR, there was a story about a foul-up in [...]
Posted: July 13th, 2007 under Canada, Immigration, Life, RANTING.
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Happy Canada Day, 2007
It’s July 1, meaning that it’s time for Canadians around the world have launched into their recently re-invigorated day of jingoistic pride. Living next door to the definition of jingoistic pride has set the bar pretty high, but based on the last couple of trips north, great strides have been made since we left our [...]
Posted: July 1st, 2007 under Architecture / Design, Bipolar, Canada, GrabPERF.
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