<story><title>Why do so many people move to the Falkland Islands? (2009)</title><url>https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2009/05/why-do-so-many-people-move-to-the-falkland-islands.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zingar</author><text>&amp;quot;...(the only access to the islands) is to have a pre-arranged job contract with a company that has signed a form of bond taking responsibility for you&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;That sounds like all British immigration rules. My employer had to apply for my visa and had to pay all my healthcare contributions for a year up front before I could move for a job in London. If I lose my job I have a few weeks to find a new employer (who will have to be willing to pay for a visa transfer) or I have to leave the country.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a bizarre system but it seems like this reporter doesn&amp;#x27;t know how normal it is. I doubt British people know how bizarre the policies that arose from their voting are either.&lt;p&gt;(Likewise for Europe and  the US)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mellosouls</author><text>It sounds perfectly reasonable.&lt;p&gt;Barring exceptional circumstances, presumably the employer takes the decision to recruit externally for cost-cutting reasons; it&amp;#x27;s important then that the hidden costs of healthcare etc are not passed on to the tax payer.</text></comment>
<story><title>Why do so many people move to the Falkland Islands? (2009)</title><url>https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2009/05/why-do-so-many-people-move-to-the-falkland-islands.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zingar</author><text>&amp;quot;...(the only access to the islands) is to have a pre-arranged job contract with a company that has signed a form of bond taking responsibility for you&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;That sounds like all British immigration rules. My employer had to apply for my visa and had to pay all my healthcare contributions for a year up front before I could move for a job in London. If I lose my job I have a few weeks to find a new employer (who will have to be willing to pay for a visa transfer) or I have to leave the country.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a bizarre system but it seems like this reporter doesn&amp;#x27;t know how normal it is. I doubt British people know how bizarre the policies that arose from their voting are either.&lt;p&gt;(Likewise for Europe and  the US)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lmm</author><text>Is it bizarre? Sounds like similar rules to anywhere - no country wants to let in people who can&amp;#x27;t support themselves.</text></comment>