'H1-B problems?' Canadian government erects billboard near Silicon Valley
Source: The Globe and Mail
Immigration Minister Jason Kenney is heading to Silicon Valley this weekend to lure high-tech immigrant entrepreneurs to Canada, dangling a new recruitment program that offers immediate permanent residency to qualifying foreigners.
Canada has designed its new Start-up Visa program to make the country more attractive than the United States, where many foreign high-tech workers languish with temporary U.S. visas.
... To drive home its point, the Canadian government has erected a big billboard on a highway that connects the San Francisco airport and Silicon Valley.
Featuring a huge maple leaf, the billboard says: H1-B problems? referring to a common U.S. visa for high-tech workers. Pivot to Canada. New Start-up Visa. Low Taxes, it reads, offering a Web address to read about the visa.
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