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And what beautiful country are you originally from?

If your own country is so great then why do you fucking migrate?

Awesome! Glad to have you over here! I like your view on politics and the world. Never new you wanted to move to the US though. Hope it all goes well for you. My wife emigrated from Germany, and her parents have as well. It is hard and there is a lot of peperwork too. Hopefully it is easier for you if your wife is already a citizen here.

She's actually from China, I met her in Hong Kong.

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Computer Science is my skillset, with a lot of domain knowledge in finance. Once I can, though, I'd like to move out of finance into some other domain (healthcare or energy, probably), as I think the good days in finance are coming to an end. Technology lets me be broad in the industries I work for, I'd rather not make the mistake of locking myself into one industry early on.

I love economics, I wouldn't want to work anything in it though. Very few economists seem to be productive, many seem to be more harmful to society than helpful. Just used as "smart" people, wheeled out to the masses to justify bad ideas.

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Safe school, is a school that I have a very high chance of getting into. The grades and experience they require is below what I have. I applied for 5 schools. 2 safe schools, 2 schools that I am in the right range ("target schools"), and one school where my grades are definitely below what they usually accept, but they might have me based on my essays/recommendations ("moonshot school"), if I'm lucky.

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I will live in Jersey City. It's a relatively expensive place in comparison to most cities around America, due to its close proximity to Manhattan (I can see Manhattan from my balcony), however, it is substantially cheaper than Manhattan itself.

Here's a cost-comparison between JC and London - http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?country1=United+Kingdom&city1=London&country2=United+States&city2=Jersey+City%2C+NJ , you can use that site to put in a city closer to you to get a better picture.

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Basically, the way that the American visa system works, is that there's a lottery each year for the visas. However, it is not a "fair" lottery in that everybody has an even shot, it is an "unfair" lottery in that certain people have better chances. The people with the best chance for getting a visa in that lottery are people with "advanced degrees" (Masters, PhD) from a US insitution.

In addition to this, the US also has another program where if you receive an advanced degree from a US institution in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths), you have the right to work for a small number of years without having to get the work visa, this is called OPT (Optional Practice Training). While you are working for an employer on OPT, that employer can also put you in for the visa lottery I mentioned above.

Due to the length of OPT, you will have three lottery chances before you get sent home. Three shots in the lottery with a higher-rated chance of success puts people in at a ~90% shot of getting a real work visa.

What this works out as, is that this pathway to working in America gives you much higher odds than any other pathway (short of illegal immigration). Which means that, on the margin, this is the route that most people will take, particularly younger people. A lot of people want to migrate to America, particularly Indian and Chinese, for a variety of reasons. As a result of this, there is a huge demand from international students to come into America to study, much, much, much higher than supply. This gives the Universities scarcity power, in the price-setting.

Maybe only the top 1% of Indians and Chinese can afford to take this route. But that's 1% of 2 1 billion+ populations. It's still a huge number. It outbids local students, and is one of the factors leading to higher Uni prices.

No, she's not, she's a Chinese citizen.

It's an exceptionally difficult process, and it doesn't even do what it sets out to achieve, due to the porous nature of the border. It's very easy to get cynical about the whole thing.

That's a hyperbole. That's like me saying America is full of terrorist attacks because of 9/11.

My US wife. Derrrrrrr! I'm from Ireland. Irish people love to travel, even with a booming economy. I'm guessing you've never even left your country and kno w nothing more than the tripe on cnn or Fox News. Read a little thing called fatca. And yes, I am entitled to my opinion. It's something I learned to do, growing up in a free country. Something you don't seem to agree with.

This guy^ hah! Because there is no crime in the U.S. And he's an expert on Germany. "Foreign hordes". "Native women". Seems like one of those people who thinks the U.S. Is the greatest at everything in the world contrary to all statistical facts, and thinks everywhere else is 3rd world. and that nothing like this ever happens in the U.S? 

Good luck in life, thinking so biased. 

I didn't wanted to say this out loud, but exactly my thoughts.

You're talking to a Swedish person.

My bum is on the Swedish.