Canada's Start-up Visa
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Trump could end up being an old style Republican in disguise after all, for all we know, and the campaign bluster is just bluster. That's not bad for the career path. Trump could also be a genuine raging fascist. That's not really good for the career path at all. Or Trump could end up being in that "most likely" middle, aka a Berlusconi type figure. For the career path there, that's a solid "meh" (although I did hear there was a bit of a brain drain in the Berlusconi days).
Remember that Hillary Clinton was "most likely" to win. You can't take "most likely" for granted these days. So one needs to evaluate all options (without being so ridiculously alarmist and realize that the worst case doesn't always happen). In the worst case scenario, I can't imagine global-reaching companies being gun-ho about maintaining a strong presence here. And I "go where the jobs go", to be honest.
Some of the Canada querying I'm sure is OMG PANIC but maybe some of it is also hedging your bets...
The idea itself is great, but the execution on the program since its inception has been weak. It needs more resources and better support for the firms and investors who can assist. All of that aside, I have seen the program work, but you can expect to put in the same amount of work as raising a small round and then some to make it happen.
I would be offering to pay for their relocation costs if I were them.
Trump is not Mitt Romney. If Romney had have won in 2012, not much would be different in all likelihood. In the case of Trump the guy is so unpredictable that it's difficult to know what - if anything - he's going to do. I don't see why other countries shouldn't take advantage of that unpredictability.
Countries can speed up immigration process, companies can pay relocation costs. Not the other way around.
http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/tx/ndvdls/tpcs/ncm-tx/rtrn/cmpltng/...
Very few visas have been issued, but I don't know if that is owing to high rejections, or just low applications.
I am a US expat, and have been in Canada for about 12 years. While no place is perfect I feel like it was a good move.
If you do decide to come, and end up in Southern Ontario, drop me a note!
:)
The costs of everything although is higher. You also do not have a mortgage interest deduction and sales tax is higher and unescapable. You cant do the 'order something from another state and not pay use taxes' thing that you can in the USA.
The IRA / Roth IRA equivalents (RRSP / TFSA) can be arguably called better. You don't have early withdrawal penalties as far as I can recall.
Property tax tends to be lower in BC, and so are mortgage rates. The cost to purchase a house in Toronto/Vancouver is significantly higher than most of the USA although and has horrible affordability ratios.
Pay is about half compared to the USA.
The ^ site being down for the last 4+ hours is a good example.
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If you have money, create a company and receive a Visa. Never has it been clearer how people who are well off are treated differently.
You can come to Canada with $1m and get a visa, with the promise that you'll invest $1m in business. This was used by rich people from HongKong. The window of opportunity has closed but still possible in provinces like Québec. When people say "create a company and receive a visa", they refer to this program.
Another kind of visa is the start-up visa. You create a startup and get investment through selected incubators and VCs. You can then get a visa.
What's also interesting and easy are work visas. You apply for a job requiring good talent. It's then straightforward to get a work visa. Usually the startup takes care of the paperwork. When you come and stay for a few months, you then decide if you want to apply for permanent residentship.
This is very far from my experience. Even large companies (AMD in my case) dread the 8month process of getting a work permit in Canada.
Calling it straight forward is not entirely accurate:
- Apply for jobs with the handicap of a 8 month hiring wait and the associated lawyer costs (no you can't realistically do this yourself).
- Have your employer to be initiate work permit application process (you can't initiate this process), which is actually two separate (and serial) applications.
- Traverse the layer cake of incompetence and bureaucracy that is the CIC (Citizenship and Immigration).
- Maybe come out with a work permit on the other side.
- Your new work permit is bound to your current employer.
- Stick around and renew your work permit for 3 years.
- Apply for residency.
- Apply for citizenship.
Still more accessible than applying for permanent residentship. Immigration is lengthy, you never know how much time it takes, requires you to have a big sum of money in your bank account, and there's the stress of even not knowing if you will find a job when moving.
Going with a work visa can be a pain, but still a more viable plan for a programmer than going through the permanent immigration route.
Not because it is impossible, but because there are other places to live which are way less painful to move to.
Brazilian news noticed that the website was down and claimed it was due to massive immigration plans from normal US citizens.
Why are you guys throwing in the towel at the slightest discomfort?.
Cliches of comparing Trump to Hitler are cliches for a reason.
So, that opinion sounds a bit dangerous to me. You'll have to offer a better reason for thinking he's a fascist than relying on clichés.
"Fascists believe that liberal democracy is obsolete, and they regard the complete mobilization of society under a totalitarian one-party state as necessary to prepare a nation for armed conflict and to respond effectively to economic difficulties.[7] Such a state is led by a strong leader—such as a dictator and a martial government composed of the members of the governing fascist party—to forge national unity and maintain a stable and orderly society.[7] Fascism rejects assertions that violence is automatically negative in nature, and views political violence, war, and imperialism as means that can achieve national rejuvenation.[8][9][10][11] Fascists advocate a mixed economy, with the principal goal of achieving autarky through protectionist and interventionist economic policies.[12]"
Being a fascist doesn't mean there will automatically be warrant out for you, or that you have committed some sort of genocide.
Hell in big lines you can compare the arguments that a Hitler used to get in power against that of a Trump and see the same stuff popping up again and again.
Against the elite, the fault of a specific group, talking about deportations, bringing jobs back lost also by foreigners, inward views, derogatory views against foreign countries,... . The list goes on.
We should respect the choice Americans make but when the world is reacting anxious it's about more than simple cliches.
As of right now the counts are showing a plurality of voters selected Clinton. What chose Trump is our antiquated election system that weighs rural voters more per capita.
I'm no Clinton supporter--I despise the woman--but if I didn't live in NYC I'd have voted for her. I didn't bother because the system is set up so any extra votes in NY don't matter.
If I were a Trump supporter I'd stay home for similar reasons.
And the funniest thing here is people should be celebrating this win becuase the way I see it, this is a win for democracy. The DNC took away the win from someone who the people wanted, they worked against the people and put someone up who the people did not trust or agree with. And at the end of the day the person the people trusted more won.
I might not agree with trump on everything especially his racist comments, but I do agree with an underdog powered by the people.
Blaming the DNC is just being intellectually lazy. The real issue is that there are a large group of the community who aren't benefiting from prosperity. And they turned out in droves. Democrats need to have an answer to their concerns.
He now represents a political party that controls the Presidency, the House and Senate. That will nominate a number of Supreme Court nominees who will most likely overturn judgements on gay marriage and abortion rights.
So, gee, I guess I can see why some people might feel slight discomfort at any or all of that.
Yeah, words matter.