Immigration Interview for America

Maybe America should have an immigration interview similar to job interviews. For instance these questions could be asked for all potential citizens:

• Why do you (the immigrant) want to come to this country? 
• What value can you can add to the country?
• What do you think of capitalism?
• What do you think of the concept of liberty?

When an employer interviews a job applicant one of the things the person is looking for how is the potential employee is going to fit into the culture of the company. Maybe we should look at how immigrants can fit into America. Like following the laws of the land. Not being anti-American.

According to Discover The Networks.org Mexico has similar guidelines for its country:

• Foreigners are admitted into Mexico "according to their possibilities of contributing to national progress."
• Immigration officials must "ensure" that immigrants will not only be useful additions to Mexico, but that they have the necessary funds to sustain themselves and their dependents.
• Foreigners may be barred from the country if their presence upsets "the equilibrium of the national demographics"; if they are deemed to be detrimental to "economic or national interests"; if they have broken Mexican laws; and if they are not found to be “physically or mentally healthy."

Evidently the Mexican gov’t  is not for open borders.

Under Canadian immigration laws if a person wants to be a permanent citizen he/she under what’s called the Independent class. The class is defined as a  “professional class or skilled worker class and the application is assessed based on a point system. An individual should make an application under this class if he/she wishes to come to Canada based on his/her qualification, work experience and knowledge of English or French language.” There is also the Entrepreneur class, investor class or self employed class if a person wants to start a business in Canada or just wants to invest in Canada without starting a business in Canada. Finally, there is the Family class where a person can immigrant if he/she has a close relative in Canada.

The immigration forms asked about your knowledge of English and French. Your education and jobs you have in the past 10 years. It even asks about your spouses employment history. The form also asks about net worth and any debt. Evidently Canada only wants the wealthy to come. Hmmm.

United Kingdom has similar classes but they call them “tiers.” “ Tier 1 (General) Migrant, a Tier 1 (Investor) Migrant, a Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) Migrant, a Tier 1 (Exceptional Talent) Migrant, a highly skilled migrant, a Businessperson, an Innovator, an Investor, a self-employed lawyer or a writer, composer or artist, the applicant must have been employed in the UK continuously throughout the five years…” Tier 1 is the highest tier. It’s what UK calls the “high value immigrants.” No kidding. It’s interesting that they had to go into such detail about the Exceptional Talent. Was composer or artist really necessary?

Under UK’s point system you get more points: if you have a Ph. D., make a lot of money previously, and are under the age of 28. So, UK’s motto is: give us your intelligent, your rich and your young. Interesting.

Here’s France’s immigration policy: “[F]oreign-born persons may request to be naturalized if such persons have resided continuously in France for five years prior to filing of the request. French nationality in this case is given in the discretion of the French High Administrative Authority (Conseil d'Etat) if the French speaking person can show that his acts in France have been meritorious and contributing to French prosperity. The above-mentioned five-year period may be reduced to two years if the foreign-born person successfully performed two years of higher education in France. “