{"id":134057,"date":"2017-08-07T23:20:43","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T05:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/07\/could-i-immigrate-to-the-united-states-under-the-raise-act.html"},"modified":"2017-08-07T23:20:43","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T05:20:43","slug":"could-i-immigrate-to-the-united-states-under-the-raise-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/07\/could-i-immigrate-to-the-united-states-under-the-raise-act.html","title":{"rendered":"Could I immigrate to the United States under the RAISE Act?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Based on the proposed Reforming American Immigration for Strong Employment (RAISE) Act, I don&#39;t quite sufficiently score as being a worthwhile future citizen of the US &#8212; largely because I&#39;m older, I&#39;m not planning on multi-million dollar investments, I don&#39;t have a Nobel Prize or Olympic Medal, and my prospective job is not incredibly lucrative.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/4887574\/trump-raise-act-immigration\/\" class=\"ot-anchor\">http:\/\/time.com\/4887574\/trump-raise-act-immigration\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the bright side, I speak English fluently, so I will be able to write many pleading letters to the immigration authorities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style='text-align:center'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6451769492993206049\/6451769491265739874'><img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-_F5UGX8lOnw\/WYlKK1uY3GI\/AAAAAAAEdmU\/Q9L1jz7-bXIYbOaCtFxVkzMKsfgI7qFmwCJoC\/immigration%2Btest%2B2017.PNG?imgmax=660' style='max-width:650px;' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style='text-align:center'>\n<a href='' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url();'><\/a>\u00a0\n<\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/93ZsJRhyo4S'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Based on the proposed Reforming American Immigration for Strong Employment (RAISE) Act, I don&#39;t quite sufficiently score as being a worthwhile future citizen of the US &#8212; largely because I&#39;m older, I&#39;m not planning on multi-million dollar investments, I don&#39;t have a Nobel Prize or Olympic Medal, and my prospective job is not incredibly lucrative. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/07\/could-i-immigrate-to-the-united-states-under-the-raise-act.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Could I immigrate to the United States under the RAISE Act?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":134058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/immigration+test+2017.PNGimgmax=660.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":132881,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/02\/18\/fifty-years-of-immigration-policy-is-changing.html","url_meta":{"origin":134057,"position":0},"title":"Fifty Years of Immigration Policy is Changing","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 18-Feb-17 6:24pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A look at the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, which significantly changed how America accepted people in -- prioritizing family unification, and eliminating national quotas. 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