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>Last year, the U.S. issued 6,895 visas to Chinese nationals under the EB-5 program, which allows foreigners to live in America if they invest a minimum of $500,000. South Koreans, the next largest group, got only 364 such visas. Canada this year closed down a similar program that had been swamped by Chinese demand.

The fact that Canada closed down an immigration program where each individual would bring in $500k to the economy is just depressing. So much immigration law is just pure, unabashed racism.



The problem can be, and you see it a bit in Australia, is that they end up pricing everybody else out of the market.


If this were just about buying houses I understand that reasoning, but if its an investor visa, I imagine you need to actually put that money into something "productive".


You only needed to lend it to the government for a few years


If the assumptions behind GDP are valid, government spending may also be considered "productive".




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