Rogi and Kaili,

Rogi and Kaili,
Maybe you'd never imagine that some European countries are very open to immigration? In Holland, when you start your Ph.D, you pay tax, and after 5 years of tax paying, you are entitled to apply a CITIZENSHIP, so there quite number of international students get Dutch citizenship after Ph.D. I don't know how much does it mean for an American citizenship, but the Dutch one means a lot for your living, since it is a highly social wellfared country. Sweden, Finland, Belgium..are among this kind of "non-immigration" country.
It is rather very ironical that US, as so-called "immigration country" has the most harsh VISA system in the world, and still not safe.
Posted by zhang at 2004-11-16 16:07:54
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I Got my U.S. Visa