My guess is the richer countries make it hard to migrate to them. USA is relatively easy to migrate to compared to basically anywhere in western Europe, UK, Canada, Japan, or South Korea.
I dunno about that, as a professional developer in the UK it's way easier to immigrate to Canada or Australia than the US.
So you end up with "senior engineers" in Canada/Australia driving taxis and not ever being able to land a job as engineers, even though they got enough points to immigrate by being one, at least on paper.
In the US, someone has to be able to get a job above market rates (so convince an employer and the government that his skills are required) before even being considered for immigration. So I wouldn't say it's harder, at least for someone really qualified.
Well, they both give major points if you've got a job offer so I wouldn't say that. But right now (COVID aside) I could apply to Australia, get my visa and be living in Melbourne inside 6 months, then citizenship in about 4 years. For the US, I'd have to:
- Get a job with a US company here
- Work there for a year and hope they're willing to transfer me on an L1 visa
- Hope the US Immigration RNG comes up with my name
- After working for a while, transfer onto an employment-based visa while hoping I get sponsored for that too.
Am I talking about illegal immigrants or Uber?