Friends: brits_americans--always good for a sadistic laugh

[winterbadger]

I love reading entry after entry that basically boil down to "Will someone please tell me that everything I'm reading about how to emigrate to the UK is wrong and that really it's easy if you know the secret handshake?" :-)

I feel for all these folks, but it does remind me of the game designer who said that 90% of the inquiries he got on rules questions amounted to "Please tell me the rule doesn't say what it does say, because that sucks for me in the game I'm playing right now." Only this is a lot bigger than a game. :-/

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[rethought.livejournal.com]

Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

Interesting that so many of us learn this in school, but it's just as difficult to go UK-->US as the other direction...and the UK never offered to take any of those mentioned above.

[winterbadger]

Yep.

I just wish the Scottish Executive would get on the ball and hammer out with IND something a little more in line with their rhetoric. If they're really serious about encouraging (skilled, qualified) immigrants, they need (IMNSHO) to do something more than offer a few postgraduate years that *don't* count towards ILR. But, of course, they have to go hat in hand to Westminster and Whitehall, who hold all the cards...