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AGC4ME

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Why is that the countries in EU are treated as seperate nations when it comes to immigration and not as EU ? If they are treated as EU will they not rank in the top along with India, China and Phillipines ? It might make ROW current and will make the Visa #s flow to retrogressed countries evenly ??? Thoughts ?
 
AGC4ME said:
Why is that the countries in EU are treated as seperate nations when it comes to immigration and not as EU ? If they are treated as EU will they not rank in the top along with India, China and Phillipines ? It might make ROW current and will make the Visa #s flow to retrogressed countries evenly ??? Thoughts ?
This is what UN mentioned in one of the discussions,

"The 7% limit is not broken down to England, Nigeria, South Korea,etc. If it was then it would be even more helpful for people from countrie which hardly file any greencard cases. I had posed the question to a few attornies why it isn't broken down further and none of them had the answer. Currently, countries outside india, china, mexico, phillipines are lumped together as part of rest of world."

When england is in ROW, how fair is your wish that EU should be treated one. Lucky that we don't have pakistan and bangaldesh in Indian Subcontinent.
 
from what i know....EU is just a community right now....they are hardly united as one.....and they are far from being a singular unit to be treated like a country...
 
AGC4ME said:
Why is that the countries in EU are treated as seperate nations when it comes to immigration and not as EU ?

Why aren't Canada, USA, and Mexico treated as one country, since they all signed NAFTA? Same reason as above. :D
 
oversubscribed countries come under the limit. Does not have anything to do with EU, NAFTA, G8 or commonwealth.
If suddenly US decides to set up Madrasaas in US and import a lot of Pakistanis, Afganistanis etc.... they will immigrate smoothly for sometime before anti immigrants start crying they have enough ... and start lobbying to restrict. Then we see per country limit for those countries also.
 
curiousGeorge said:
Why aren't Canada, USA, and Mexico treated as one country, since they all signed NAFTA? Same reason as above. :D

Dude. EU is different from NAFTA. They have common currency. They have a EU parliament in Brussels etc etc. EU is implementing policies that will regard them as a single entity.
 
The EU is more for economic conveniences. It's not a political or military treaty. Keep in mind UK refuses to use the Euro. At the UN, each EU nation still has their own seats... otherwise the Security Council will only have 4 permanent members: EU (Britain + France), US, Russia, and China.
EU citizens from Spain will continue to speak Spanish, from France speaking French... so you can't say all nations of the EU should be lumped into one "country".
 
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