Could You Migrate To The Country You Live In?

The majority of you reading this will be from the U.S.A., the U.K., Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

Have you checked your own country's immigration rules?

If you were born outside of the country you now live in without question, would you pass the immigration rules?

I live in Australia. I doubt I would "honestly" be able to come to Australia to live and start a new life, if I was not born here.

I have studied the migration rules of the USA, UK, Canada and Australia. And while there are some slight differences, all pretty well have the same policies.

I am too old to get a "work permit" so cannot arrive with a 12 month visa and set myself up as a resident that way. I honestly have no "exceptional" academic qualifications. I don't have one million dollars to invest in starting a business which will immediately employ at least ten people.

The only way I could migrate into Australia, UK, USA and Canada (not counting ancestory priveleges) would be to be offered a job by a company within that country. And the only way the immigration department of each respective country would accept my coming, would be if the company could prove that I would be bringing skills and abilities which could not already be found elsewhere in that country.

I live - and conduct business - in Australia. But by the Australian immigration standards, I am not a desirable person to come and live here.

For those who are interested to see whether you could pass your own country's immigration rules (not including ancestory), see the links below (some have online self-assessment tests)...

USA: http://www.immigration.gov & http://www.bcis.gov (Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services)
UK: http://www.ind.homeoffice.gov.uk/default.asp (Immigration and Nationality Directorate (IND) - Home Office) &
Canada: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/index.html - (Citizenship and Immigration Canada)
Australia: http://www.immi.gov.au/ (Australian Immigration Department)

Michael Ross


No Immigration Necessary