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If he wanted to live and work in Canada, wouldn't applying for jobs in Canada be easier than applying while living in India?

As much as I dislike FB as a company, I'm not sure he is worse off?

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Catch-22. You often can't legally search for a job as a tourist. Typically, like the US H1-B, a sponsoring company needs to "prove" that they tried and failed to source the employee onshore first, and therefore immigration is the interest of the domestic company.

I'm separated from my family right now -- wife and kids -- while waiting on an immigration process that has taken far longer than we were expecting. I assure you that any immigration-related worry can seem outsized.

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