Lorne ,'Smile Time'
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I found this info on the L-1 visa:
That's pretty much my deal. We've just applied to have it extended, and to change Bec's visa to one that allows her to work.
Incidentally, I just received news from a friend of mine that his wife has won the green card lottery. So, go them.
Ahah. So you worked for them before you got here. I understand now.
I think the bulk of the visa employees in IT are on H1, and were incredibly exploited (low pay, illegal threats of deportation, garnished wages, cramped accomodation), and that may have been why they now allow you to change employers. Not that one's employers will bring it up in conversation.
I worked with a guy that had won the green card lottery. He went back home (to Poland) because he just didn't like how Americans did things.
How many people (roughly) win the green card lottery a year?
And mini-cabs are actually smaller too, aren't they? As in normal sized cars rather than big black taxis.
Yeah-- normal cars with special registration to carry passengers for money, not purpose-built things.
How many people (roughly) win the green card lottery a year?
According to this website, they make 55,000 available through the lottery each year. (Also from the site, if your country sent over 50,000 immigrants to the US in the last five years, no lottery for you.)
(Also from the site, if your country sent over 50,000 immigrants to the US in the last five years, no lottery for you.)
Which explains why the Brits can't take part in the lottery because they just keep on coming anyway.
Why did I not hear more people squealing about The Magic Bullet when it aired in the US?
Whoops, whitefonted for Angus: People didn't like it. I thought it was great, though, so we can have a Magic Bullet fandom of two. So creepy!
I think I disliked it because nothing happened, but I was so mesmerised by GT that I didn't realise until the end that it had all been covered in the preview.
I enjoyed it, but more for the humour than the creep factor. Angel and Connor singing "Oh Jasmine..."? There are no words. Too funny. And I'm glad the plot is moving along faster.
I need to rewatch before I form a proper opinion. I watched it with a friend who loves Buffy but thinks Angel is stupid and hasn't watched it since early Season 3, so she was making sarcastic comments the whole time. They were accurate and funny sarcastic comments, but it got me in a critical, silly mood and made me watch in that kind of ironic, distanced way instead of getting absorbed in the story.
I really wigged with Lorne signing "Freddy's Dead" because it was both humorously appropriate, but creepy to see Lorne celebrating that they were going to kill someone who was a friend.
Edited for whitefonting.