I've got a similar plan myself and will be spending the next few years here making money and gaining career experience to take abroad.
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Someone in my lab (foreign, but church-going white European girl) was in deep trouble because she forgot to check the status of her green card every single day* and missed some appointment, and they gave her some scary notice about an expired visa. (I don't have the details - she wasnt very specific).
*she checked every 2 days or something. It sounded stupidly strict.
We've always been subjected to strict monitoring. I work in a company which processes a large number of visas like this and they absolutely want to be in a green relationship with USCIS. I've gotten daily notice about my expiring work authorization for the last 30 days. My company also files extension notices on the last possible time (probably to extend the associate's time in this country) which is sort of ridiculous but hey ho, you know what we signed up for.
EDIT : I'm Lutheran Christian but being a Christian doesn't help in these cases. Maybe being a Muslim makes it worse, but religion is generally a non-factor.
Yep
Have you figured out where you’ll base yourself?
I’m stuck for another few years myself but it could be as many as 8
depending on wife’s retirement.
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Have you figured out where you’ll base yourself?
I’m stuck for another few years myself but it could be as many as 8
Italy checks the boxes.
Yep
You can teach anywhere. Australia?
I'm cleaning up and moving in 2020. Maybe even sooner if my visa extension is denied. My visa expires on the 6th of July
ICE have probably already been staking out your place.
Will check out Italy next year.
Heard good things about it tbf.
Heard good things about it tbf.
I'd say the recent Seehofer/CSU stunts aside Germany's goverment is still very much centrist - or on the US spectrum: socialist. The CDU is probably a rough equivalent to the democrats and, aside from the AFD (who no other party wants to work with at this point) other parties only go further to the left from there.
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I'm re-reading some exam documentation in preparation for a new one I'm marking next week, and for letter tasks they talked about watching out for mix-ups and errors in closing formulae, such as using "best regrets".
Made me think of someone.
Made me think of someone.
Hilarious. Called out live on bullshit.
I could teach, my wife could nurse... but there’s a lot more to it than “can you work?”
You won't get shot.
Really!?!
It's amazing outside of the States. You should try it!Really!?!
Australia's a nice place but like in the States you're not really allowed to drink in public. So that's a letdown.
Dude... I’ve been outside of the states multiple times. That has nothing to do with it.
Think he doesn't care, tbh. He is just about himself.
I'm just messing. Bored at work. I'll stop derailing the thread.
Blessed are the pisstakers...
You’re good man.. it just puzzles me sometimes how easily people view upping sticks and moving across the globe.
“If not for me we’d be at war”
Prove it
'ME ME ME...IN BIGLY CAPITAL LETTERS'
It's a national pass-time for Irish people. I get the feeling it's the same for New Zealanders too.
Interesting, I’m kind of giving up on Hong Kong (well, mostly China) and thinking about moving.
That’s just straight up racism. Iranian =/= Terrorist/Criminal/Generally Bad Person despite what Fox might tell you.
Yes indeed.
And that’s on the presumption he’s even telling the truth or not exaggerating.
Twitter is Trump's entire way of directly speaking to the public so its expected that people will assess what he says there. Peterson and others in this thread on the other hand have written books, done lengthy podcasts, public debates/talks etc. where its easy to lift a very short bit out of context while ignoring the entirety of the their broader points.
This is not a coincidence as the IC are about to unanimously agree NK are still enriching and have no plans to fully de-nuclearise.
He creates his own reality.
Trump has also done numerous campaign speeches, press conferences and public address. They are just as stupid as his tweets.
These towering intellectuals chose to communicate via twitter with its pitfalls and limits. People with far less academic credentials but infinitely more common sense have had no issue getting their points across in this medium without them getting misunderstood. Either they are not all that intelligent or people actually aren't misunderstanding them at all.
No, people don't 'rely on his tweets to glean policy', we laugh at the horseshits that come out of his mouth (and fingers).
It was the same through the campaign as well as when he was still just a celebrity. People laugh at both his tweets as well as interviews.
There's plenty of laughter, but more importantly he also reveals his policy preferences on tweets, which has never happened before to this degree. Due to his lack of press availability, the media therefore rely on the substance of his tweets to analyze much of his policies.
Then it's the press fault to sensationalise that medium and everybody else's for buying into it.
Every single policy his administration has ever initiated can be 'gleaned' through far more trustworthy sources rather than his Twitter account, which is nothing more than a tool for his self aggrandisement.
The press have nothing to do with it. They are simply in the business of analyzing Trump's public comments. He could choose to communicate by long public talks or by carrier pigeon and the substance of what he says would still be reported on.
And what they reported on have very little to do with what is actually happening.
I suppose we found out about the Comey, Tillerson firing from his tweets? We found out about the healthcare bill, the tax bill through his tweets?
You can stop paying any attention to his Twitter altogether and it wouldnt matter on jot to your understanding of current events. The idea that his tweets bear any real importance to public knowledge is mostly driven by the media who needs content for their 24/7/365 newscycle.
His tweets aren't the only source of news obviously, but they are the primary way that the current POTUS communicates. There's plenty of other news that comes from inside the cabinet, Congress etc but it rarely comes directly from the top.
You could also stop watching TV, radio etc. Ultimately, Twitter is just a delivery mechanism that gets amplified on twitter and elsewhere. You can still get the substance of what he's saying on TV, but the TV news spend considerable time getting much of their Trump info from the things he himself says ....on twitter.
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