{"id":11322,"date":"2023-07-30T14:48:52","date_gmt":"2023-07-30T14:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11322"},"modified":"2023-07-30T14:48:52","modified_gmt":"2023-07-30T14:48:52","slug":"canada-is-poaching-americas-high-skilled-foreign-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11322","title":{"rendered":"Canada Is Poaching America&#8217;s High-Skilled Foreign Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;The United States doesn&#8217;t make it easy for talented foreigners to permanently&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2023\/06\/26\/how-other-countries-benefit-from-americas-dysfunctional-immigration-system\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">settle<\/a>&nbsp;in the country, even if they work in critical fields and stay in legal status. For workers on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uscis.gov\/working-in-the-united-states\/h-1b-specialty-occupations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">H-1B visas<\/a>, a nonimmigrant classification reserved for highly skilled, highly specialized laborers, it can take&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cato.org\/regulation\/spring-2023\/reform-h-1b-visas-green-cards#:~:text=Ideally%2C%20H%E2%80%911B%20status%20should,employment%E2%80%90%E2%80%8Bbased%20immigration%20systems.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">years<\/a>&nbsp;to adjust to a green card. For Indian nationals, it can take&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cato.org\/regulation\/spring-2023\/reform-h-1b-visas-green-cards#:~:text=Ideally%2C%20H%E2%80%911B%20status%20should,employment%E2%80%90%E2%80%8Bbased%20immigration%20systems.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">decades<\/a>.&#8221;<br>&#8230;<br>&#8220;&#8221;America hasn&#8217;t streamlined its immigration system in over two decades,&#8221; says Sam Peak, a senior policy analyst at Americans for Prosperity. &#8220;Canadian policy makers continue to find new ways to take advantage of that.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-reason-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"Tpt6b3HlEI\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2023\/06\/28\/canada-is-poaching-americas-high-skilled-foreign-workers\/\">Canada Is Poaching America&#8217;s High-Skilled Foreign Workers<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Canada Is Poaching America&#039;s High-Skilled Foreign Workers&#8221; &#8212; Reason.com\" src=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2023\/06\/28\/canada-is-poaching-americas-high-skilled-foreign-workers\/embed\/#?secret=37ftV9lcP9#?secret=Tpt6b3HlEI\" data-secret=\"Tpt6b3HlEI\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The United States doesn&#8217;t make it easy for talented foreigners to permanently settle in the country, even if they work in critical fields and stay in legal status. For workers on H-1B visas, a nonimmigrant classification reserved for highly skilled, highly specialized laborers, it can take years to adjust to a green card. For Indian nationals, it can take decades.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8221;America hasn&#8217;t streamlined its immigration system in over two decades,&#8221; says Sam Peak, a senior policy analyst at Americans for Prosperity. &#8220;Canadian policy makers continue to find new ways to take advantage of that.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[293,217,165,493,25,1005,574],"class_list":["post-11322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-canada","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-immigrants","tag-immigration","tag-technology","tag-workers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11323,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11322\/revisions\/11323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}