Not great.

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One of the very positive developments in the last decades: the global suicide rate has declined very substantially.

smh more clickbait from Brian Potter

And also because of extremely strict employer based enforcement.

It's also amazing how quickly Canada can bring people into the country and keep them here.

We got our 3-year work visa in a matter of weeks. We had permanent residency after living here for just 18 months. Now we own a house + plan to stay long-term.

New Canadian immigration plan just dropped.

They're setting targets while we set limits

The global competition for talent is heating up.

US policymakers need to respond. nytimes.com/2022/11/01/wor…

Canada’s immigration system enjoys “broad public support” because it favors skilled workers in industries with critical labor shortages.

And they just announced a major increase in future immigration targets:

Global Skill Partnerships can stimulate economic development abroad while addressing labor shortages at home

In a new paper with Helen Dempster, Kristie De Peña, Matthew La Corte, Reva J. Resstack, and Cassandra Zimmer, we look at how this model could be implemented through existing US visa programs

If you want to understand USCIS backlogs, you should read my brief paper on it. It's not just that there are long waits. It's that no one knows how long the wait will be, and there's massive variation between locations, app types, & individual applicants twitter.com/David_J_Bier/s…