<story><title>Immigrant entrepreneur arrested to meet quotas</title><url>http://www.tenthcave.com/2011/10/plea-for-help.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rdtsc</author><text>An interesting factoid. There is no legal way for anyone to just come to US and make it their home country.&lt;p&gt;Say  someone from Africa or South America. They can&apos;t simply save enough money, get on a plane, land at JFK and then after 10 years or whatever time become citizens. They would have to be persecuted in a terrible way before being granted asylum, have to marry a US citizen, find a company that would hire them.&lt;p&gt;I think that is very interesting given that this country was founded on immigrants just hoping on the boat and coming here, either to build a better life or because things got terribly bad where they were.&lt;p&gt;I personally went through the whole process and it is a fucking mess. I knew how to deal with it, because I dealt with bureaucracy in the old country. I can sense an annoyed low level clerk&apos;s power trip coming on before they notice it. Such individual need special treatment. You never want to fall into anyone&apos;s cross-hairs, it seems like they would destroy you just because they can.&lt;p&gt;Also know someone who works for immigration. It is quite a dysfunctional entity. Very inefficient. Lots of internal mistakes, unpaid interns do the job searching through databases and picking people out for violations &amp;#38; deportation. Next time you know someone was picked out -- chances are some kid thought their last name sounded funny and it caught their attention.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shin_lao</author><text>If you invest at least $ 1,000,000 in a company, you can get a visa. This gets down to $ 500,000 for some areas. The investment must create or maintain at least 10 jobs.&lt;p&gt;It&apos;s the EB-5 visa.</text></comment>
<story><title>Immigrant entrepreneur arrested to meet quotas</title><url>http://www.tenthcave.com/2011/10/plea-for-help.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rdtsc</author><text>An interesting factoid. There is no legal way for anyone to just come to US and make it their home country.&lt;p&gt;Say  someone from Africa or South America. They can&apos;t simply save enough money, get on a plane, land at JFK and then after 10 years or whatever time become citizens. They would have to be persecuted in a terrible way before being granted asylum, have to marry a US citizen, find a company that would hire them.&lt;p&gt;I think that is very interesting given that this country was founded on immigrants just hoping on the boat and coming here, either to build a better life or because things got terribly bad where they were.&lt;p&gt;I personally went through the whole process and it is a fucking mess. I knew how to deal with it, because I dealt with bureaucracy in the old country. I can sense an annoyed low level clerk&apos;s power trip coming on before they notice it. Such individual need special treatment. You never want to fall into anyone&apos;s cross-hairs, it seems like they would destroy you just because they can.&lt;p&gt;Also know someone who works for immigration. It is quite a dysfunctional entity. Very inefficient. Lots of internal mistakes, unpaid interns do the job searching through databases and picking people out for violations &amp;#38; deportation. Next time you know someone was picked out -- chances are some kid thought their last name sounded funny and it caught their attention.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blahedo</author><text>&amp;#62; &lt;i&gt;There is no legal way for anyone to just come to US and make it their home country.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Are there countries where this is possible?  This is a real question, I&apos;m not snarking---is there some country X where I could just up and say, &quot;I want to move to X&quot; and just go there and make it my permanent residence?  (I know that there are some countries that &lt;i&gt;in practice&lt;/i&gt; don&apos;t &lt;i&gt;enforce&lt;/i&gt; their requirements, but I thought all countries had them.)</text></comment>