Re: INS marriages
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exactly, it's easy to get a visa for canada/western europe/australia, but almost impossible to get legal residency. it's harder to get a visa for the usa, but much easier to get legal residency (a green card).
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this is simply not true.
144,000 people are expected to have migrated to Australia in 2006/07 financial year. This represents just under 0.7% of the entire population (21million pop)
1,266,264 migrants obtained permanent residency in the US during the 2006 calendar year. This represents just under 0.4% of the entire population (300million pop)
(those stats were courtesy of wikipedia)
according to the CIA world factbook, here are the net migration rates:
Australia 3.78 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.)
Canadia 5.79 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.)
UK 2.17 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.)
USA 3.05 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.)
By contrast:
Bolivia -1.18 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.)
Japan 0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.)
Malaysia 0 migrant(s)/1,000 population
Saudi Arabia -5.95 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.)
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I don't see how the number of immigrants vs. emigrants of a specific country has anything to do with the difficulty of immigrating.
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