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Could you immigrate?

Sure. My Nobel Prize made it a cinch.

0 votes

Yes, easily.

1 votes

Yes, but barely.

2 votes

Missed it by THAT much.

6 votes

Um, I'm screwed.

7 votes

Fake News!

2 votes

Lefty Specialist Aug 10 2017 12:09 PM

http://time.com/4887574/trump-raise-act-immigration/ Under the RAISE Act being proposed, there's a point system for immigration. See if you could pass. My grandfather, who was a fluent English-speaker from Ireland, was a little older, had no job waiting for him and wasn't investing anything except future hard work, would have missed the cut bigly.

metirish Aug 10 2017 12:51 PM Re: Could you immigrate?

You don't qualify to apply Your score: 17 Minimum score: 30 This September 10th it will be 23 years since I did immigrate, I would not have been able to come here under this proposal.

MFS62 Aug 10 2017 01:08 PM Re: Could you immigrate?

I score 20, which means I'll have to start caring about soccer. Later

Benjamin Grimm Aug 10 2017 01:26 PM Re: Could you immigrate?

I got a 26, so I just fall short. I would have made it if it hadn't been more than eight years since I won all of my Olympic medals.

RealityChuck Aug 10 2017 01:36 PM Re: Could you immigrate?

I got 18. The point system is just another way to pretend to be objective. Immigration restrictions for non-criminals are always about bigotry.

cooby Aug 10 2017 01:40 PM Re: Could you immigrate? Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Aug 10 2017 01:43 PM

metirish wrote: You don't qualify to apply Your score: 17 Minimum score: 30 This September 10th it will be 23 years since I did immigrate, I would not have been able to come here under this proposal. This kinda says it all I got a 13. Those investing in US options are kinda sparse.

sharpie Aug 10 2017 01:42 PM Re: Could you immigrate?

31. I'll be scooping up all those jobs from hard working Americans.

TransMonk Aug 10 2017 02:06 PM Re: Could you immigrate?

Every American should take this test. I got a 17.

metsmarathon Aug 10 2017 02:12 PM Re: Could you immigrate?

32. I win!

Benjamin Grimm Aug 10 2017 02:21 PM Re: Could you immigrate?

Why do you get 15 points for winning an Olympic medal? That seems... odd.

cooby Aug 10 2017 02:22 PM Re: Could you immigrate?

Probably because now you can compete for us.

themetfairy Aug 10 2017 02:25 PM Re: Could you immigrate?

My investments are made with US dollars - apparently that's not good enough!

Lefty Specialist Aug 10 2017 02:51 PM Re: Could you immigrate?

26. Too damn old.

Chad Ochoseis Aug 10 2017 02:54 PM Re: Could you immigrate?

Even if it were, it has to be at least $1.35 million in a new business. You can't just toss the money into the stock market. Though I wonder if they'd let you get away with opening up "Metfairy Investments, Inc.", whose sole purpose is to invest $1.35 million in Icelandic krona into the stock market. I'm fluent in English and have a master's in math, which is good for 20 points. Maybe I could wangle a job offer if I had to. But I'm 52 years old and Stockholm hasn't contacted me yet about my Nobel Prize in actuarial science, so I'm screwed.

Ceetar Aug 10 2017 02:58 PM Re: Could you immigrate?

26, mostly because I'm underpaid. A modest bump would get me over the hump ...but only until the end of March when the age would knock me back under.

d'Kong76 Aug 10 2017 03:07 PM Re: Could you immigrate?

Looks like I'm stuck in Vilnius, which isn't a terrible thing.

A Boy Named Seo Aug 10 2017 04:29 PM Re: Could you immigrate?

Are we all assuming our current jobs would be available when we immigrate to the New World? I answered that I have no job offer and got a 17. So even if I had a sweet gig waiting for me that paid at least $155,800, those extra 13 points would just get me to the minimum of 30. And how Trumpian, too, that if you plan to invest with foreign currency, but the amount is worth less than $1.35M, your broke-ass gets zero points.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Aug 10 2017 05:38 PM Re: Could you immigrate?

19. Viva la Philippines! Or Germany!

MFS62 Aug 10 2017 05:49 PM Re: Could you immigrate?

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I got a 26, so I just fall short. I would have made it if it hadn't been more than eight years since I won all of my Olympic medals. Riiiiiiiiighttttttt. Was BS an Olympic event back then? (I really did laugh out loud) Later

Vic Sage Aug 10 2017 09:43 PM Re: Could you immigrate?

26. Can't come in. American playwrights are fucked now.

seawolf17 Aug 10 2017 10:39 PM Re: Could you immigrate?

39 for me, thanks to that fucking sweet 100m dash I won in retrospect from 2012 when over 6,000,000,000 other people were all found guilty of doping. (No. Only 24 in reality. Back to Sicily! Or Ireland! Or England! Or wherever any of my ancestors may or may not have come from!)

Edgy MD Aug 10 2017 10:51 PM Re: Could you immigrate?

Rockin' Doc Aug 11 2017 04:50 AM Re: Could you immigrate?

I scored 33 on the strength of my doctorate and employable job options. The proposed point system as illustrated above is ludicrous. I think there needs to be some screening process (like criminal records or affiliation with terrorist /crime organiztions), but the proposed guidelines are crazy.

dgwphotography Aug 11 2017 11:13 AM Re: Could you immigrate?

Edgy MD wrote: YOU FARGIN' ICEHOLE!

Ceetar Aug 11 2017 01:11 PM Re: Could you immigrate?

Can anyone post Holland's? or Germany's? Or Czech's? Might be more interesting to me ;-)

Frayed Knot Aug 11 2017 01:32 PM Re: Could you immigrate? Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Aug 11 2017 03:06 PM

I scored so low on that test that not only would they not let me in but I may actually get thrown out even though I'm native born and parts of my family were here pre-Revolution

d'Kong76 Aug 11 2017 02:31 PM Re: Could you immigrate?

Right? Thankfully I live in a sanctuary city, ICE can't (won't) touch me.

Ashie62 Aug 12 2017 09:46 PM Re: Could you immigrate?

Zero points for being old? Yeesh.

Mets Willets Point Aug 13 2017 12:45 AM Re: Could you immigrate?

I'm actually wondering if I could emigrate.