I don’t know what to say when sometimes well-meaning Americans express their support for my immigration struggles, and follow that up with ‘well thankfully I’ve never had to deal with that, being American’
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I don’t know what to say when sometimes well-meaning Americans express their support for my immigration struggles, and follow that up with ‘well thankfully I’ve never had to deal with that, being American’
I mean yeah, coz you’re American! But if you wanted to move literally *anywhere else* you’ll have very similar immigration struggles?
Moving somewhere permanently is not like visiting a country without needing a visa!
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I guarantee you don’t have an easy mode in moving to Canada or Europe or Australia or something just because you’re American. It’ll be exactly the same as what I might have to do. In fact you might even.. still need to take an English test, haha
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It’s also such a weird thing to say. Yay, I’ve never had to deal with immigration. To my own country!
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Sindarina, Edge Case Detectivereplied to Adrianna Tan last edited by
@skinnylatte A US passport still affords them a level of privilege that few others do, though. There's most definitely a difference between you immigrating to the US, and them moving elsewhere, especially to other Western countries, even with the stricter rules in place these days.
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@skinnylatte Even coming from the UK it’s not that easy to end up in Canada / Australia / NZ, so it is always amusing to watch Americans talk about running away to one of them
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@sindarina @skinnylatte there's not really much direct advantage from having a US citizenship through, there's advantages which you probably have as a US citizen (probably English speaking, probably relatively wealthy if you're emigrating), but they're more indirect.
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@dotstdy @sindarina less obvious benefits in points based migration systems, but maybe with fewer administrative holdups like mysterious denials based on citizenship of certain countries
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One of the weird things about empire I guess
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@skinnylatte tend to find that Americans have their greatest county in the world thing going on, so perhaps emergrating has never crossed their minds?
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That seems more like in comparison to how easy it used to be.
So many aging 10 pound poms here full of pride at how they have made good, most of them extremely sensitive to any criticism of the colonial process.
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Anecdotally the US can be particularly difficult, and worse for some than others.
I have a friend who gave up on academia here, and plans to move back to the states with their American husband and toddler (born here) They met while she was studying over there. It's been about a year so far waiting for the visa to be approved. Her husband was able to get residency here, no problems -
@RedRobyn @endocrimes I like that being from a colony as well, I totally understood this sentence
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Adrianna Tanreplied to Steve Scott last edited by [email protected]
@wishy lol they all say they want to go but most of them haven’t looked too much into what that means (not talking about the people who can’t leave)
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@RedRobyn Trump totally gutted the immigration services when he was around, and they haven’t quite recovered from the backlog and processing times
Spouses of US citizens abroad are taking an especially long time, but not if they’re already in the country