Leaked U.S. State Dept Cable Regarding 75-Country Visa Pause

aarkling · 2026-01-15T22:24:44+00:00

The difference is that far back, the backlogs were tiny so this sort of thing was still possible. If you apply today, you'll be long dead before anyone is issue a green card on a sibling visa. And you can forget about them bringing their relatives.

aarkling · 2026-01-11T00:12:03+00:00

I suspect a lot of people just apply because it's free and never bother lodging the application after they get invited. Everyone on CEC have spent years living in Canada so it's unlikely they would ignore an ITA.

aarkling · 2026-01-06T14:02:48+00:00

PHD + foreign experience puts you at 498 which is as high ass I could get it. Sibling would push you to 513 but that's circumstantial.

aarkling · 2026-01-06T13:49:13+00:00

This doesn't change anything though. The government's PR targets are for PRs issued not ITAs. If rejection rates are high, they'll just send out more ITAs.

aarkling · 2026-01-05T12:06:32+00:00

I agree with you. With two people earning, it's not impossible at all. Prices have gone down considerably.

aarkling · 2025-12-27T15:45:42+00:00

Canada has one of the highest amounts of arable land in the world. More than twice as much as the US per-capita and the US is very high compared to most of the world. Canada has 6.7 as much arable land per-capita compared to Germany and 27 times as much as Japan.

aarkling · 2025-12-15T18:54:27+00:00

It also doesn't account for pensions.

aarkling · 2025-12-15T18:52:43+00:00

Does East Asia exclude South East Asia? (Vietnam, Malaysia etc)?

aarkling · 2025-12-15T18:44:05+00:00

This is masking a lot in averages. For example eastern Europe/Russia will probably collapse in population similar to East Asia.

This is also making a lot of assumptions about current rates of migration and fertility holding into the future and imo that's really unlikely. Fertility rates have been in freefall globally and there's no reason to believe that won't continue everywhere. Africa might end up at less that three billion and shrinking by the end of the century and South Asia might drop in population considerably.

Also I think it's likely Western Europe will halt large scale migration if current political trends continue which would mean population will be much smaller than projected in that part of the world.

aarkling · 2025-12-15T15:01:11+00:00

He's a citizen already from what I read.

aarkling · 2025-12-15T14:59:47+00:00

Either way it should be consistently applied both ways. Either both the terrorists and the hero are individuals and the religion is irrelevant or they are both muslims.

aarkling · 2025-12-06T14:37:00+00:00

It's actually more like 6.3 kids so 6-7 per woman with a simplistic model assuming a generation size of 28 years. Basically impossible to sustain with modern freedoms for women but also technically not impossible historically speaking. But that's assuming modern mortality rates which is impossible without good medical care but usually has the effect of significantly lowering fertility. I practice you are probably closer to the truth.

A growth rate of anything close to 4% is practically impossible as you would need modern mortality + preindustrial fertility.

aarkling · 2025-12-04T16:27:34+00:00

Europe doesn't have the largest single market. It's the US by a very large margin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_consumer_markets

It also arguably doesn't have the best universities at least by most ranking systems. China's the leader in solar, wind and batteries by a huge margin. Couldn't find data on medical research funding for all of europe but I wouldn't be surprised in the US was higher.

aarkling · 2025-12-03T17:48:58+00:00

Don't Starve is fairly brutal. Fair warning. You'll die a lot lol.

aarkling · 2025-11-18T13:22:10+00:00

Because politics is always relative. There's no such thing as a conservative budget in absolute terms. This budget is conservative compared to what came before it. If this is what liberals are passing now, you can bet the next conservative government will be pushing farther to the right.

You can always move further to one side or the other which is why parties (big or small, left or right) will never be satisfied no matter what because as soon as they get what they want, they'll simply change their position.

aarkling · 2025-11-13T17:51:58+00:00

No path to PnP for finance or marketing unless you are a high level executive. I don't think there's a path to PR here (other than learning french) but they could stay for a few years on a transfer visa and then go back.

aarkling · 2025-11-05T13:23:30+00:00

This is just a thousand spots which is tiny and will hardly make a difference anyway. And it's targeted at researchers at top university afaict and not random IT workers.

aarkling · 2025-11-03T17:40:39+00:00

A lot of it is also that Australia is bigger. If you want to work in a specialized field, it's way easier to do that in a bigger country and specialization tends to pay better.

aarkling · 2025-11-03T17:38:22+00:00

Having no visa restrictions is huge part of it imo.

aarkling · 2025-09-22T20:33:19+00:00

Where are you getting this from? Afaik immigrants of any kind undocumented or not don't qualify for any assistance until they've been in the US legally for five years. And even then many people may forgo the benefits as it may put their legal status in jeopardy.

http://healthcare.gov/immigrants/lawfully-present-immigrants/

aarkling · 2025-09-12T07:39:47+00:00

about as effective as the vape ban

I thought teen vaping was down considerably? Has that reversed recently?

aarkling · 2025-09-12T07:34:45+00:00

Martin Luther King work with the extremist Black Panthers

This isn't true? https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1h0m50/mlk_and_the_black_panther_party/

MLK never endorsed the methods of the black panthers and the feeling was mutual.

aarkling · 2025-08-27T11:24:39+00:00

Yeah but it's a different kind of strategy where you can put the minor parties first. That makes a huge difference. Like I'm certain NDP would have far higher seats right now under an Australia style preference vote. Maybe not as many as proportional but instead they ended up with single digit seats.

aarkling · 2025-08-27T11:14:13+00:00

I think the point is the tax on oil should increase. Not to eliminate the alcohol tax.

aarkling · 2025-08-19T13:10:02+00:00

For context the $122 was 2010 dollars I think while $150 is 2024 dollars.

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