Our friends came here from England in ‘98, for similar reasons. He’s been on a work visa in an IT position. They’ve been struggling for years to get through the bureacratic nightmare of our immigration process. It took until a few months ago to clear the Dept of Labor, which now permits them to apply for a green card. In the meantime, he remains locked in with a single employer, the kids grow up, and neither the teenagers nor the wife are allowed to seek employment to help save for college. Unfortunately, the US has not been extending the welcome mat to educated European immigrants in recent years.
We only extend the “welcome mat” to ignorant, unskilled, disease ridden, non english speaking, third world peasants. After all, it wouldn’t be very diverse of us to welcome english speaking, skilled, healthy people from a similar culture.
“..the US has not been extending the welcome mat to educated European immigrants in recent years.”
This is done intentionally in order to destroy the western image that the US once had. In order to satisfy the globalists we must become a turd world nation.
Australia has become more and more of a desirable place to go to permanently to our two sons who are degreed engineers.
I knew a young Brit who was in a similar situation. While waiting for his green card — a span of several years — he wasn’t supposed to work. Of course he could take odd jobs off the books, but if he was caught he could be sent back. Meanwhile, he was dependent on his American wife and mother-in-law. It just isn’t a normal situation for a young, ambitious and eager to work male to be living like this. Ironically, he and his wife had met in Mexico. If he had just come across the border illegally, he could have been working from the day he arrived and in line for eventual amnesty.