<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>codetrotter</author><text>I’ve been thinking about going to Canada for a long while, and this might sound silly but I was wondering, do people on HN who have immigrated to Canada arrange a lot ahead of time like doing interviews with companies via teleconferencing? Or do you go there to meet people in person first and to investigate opportunities? Or something else?&lt;p&gt;And when you did go, did you get a job at the company you thought you were going to work for, or did you have to interview with other companies instead?&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, has anyone here had the misfortune of trying to immigrate but ending up not finding work and having to cancel their immigration plans? If so, what were your experiences like and what would you do different this time?</text><parent_chain><item><author>MattyMc</author><text>Canada is benefiting substantially from the recent US immigration policies. My Ai team at Microsoft Canada was stacked with talent, all immigrants, and most expressed to me that they would have “normally gone to the US.”&lt;p&gt;I don’t have to remind this community of the laundry list of tech giants started by immigrants. However, if anyone outside the US is reading this we’d love to have you in Canada. Come here, please.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Daniel Stenberg (curl) has been denied entry to the US for 870 days</title><url>https://daniel.haxx.se/us-visa.html</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>angst_ridden</author><text>The current approval time for residency applications is 49 months.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m sure it&amp;#x27;s less for straight-up worker visas, though.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I was not sufficiently precise. I&amp;#x27;m not speaking of Express Entry &amp;#x2F; skills-based applications here. If you have a high score in the CRS system, you are eligible for other programs which may be much faster.</text><parent_chain><item><author>MattyMc</author><text>Canada is benefiting substantially from the recent US immigration policies. My Ai team at Microsoft Canada was stacked with talent, all immigrants, and most expressed to me that they would have “normally gone to the US.”&lt;p&gt;I don’t have to remind this community of the laundry list of tech giants started by immigrants. However, if anyone outside the US is reading this we’d love to have you in Canada. Come here, please.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Daniel Stenberg (curl) has been denied entry to the US for 870 days</title><url>https://daniel.haxx.se/us-visa.html</url></story>