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Strategic Insights Business Recovery in the USA and Canada

If media reports are to be believed, Canadians look to be a particularly unhappy lot right now. The recent bout of inflation and interest rate rises appear to have precipitated a specific phase of economic suffering that has spilled over into personal lives, and that misery appears to be uniform across demographic and socioeconomic categories. According to one survey, financial troubles, inflation, and high interest rates are having an impact on Canadians' mental health, driving concern about housing and food.  Millennials, particularly those who own a home, appear to be the most vulnerable to economic downturns as interest rates rise on tight debt burdens and economic damage wreaks havoc on the economy and expectations. Burdened by debt and rising housing expenses, three-in-ten Canadians are "struggling" to make ends meet, with mortgage holders reporting trouble meeting housing bills up 11% from last June. If you have a place to live, you struggle to pay your bills, and

Essential Information for Brazilian Citizens Seeking Work in the USA

  Someone who is not a member of the United States wants to come work here. This page gives an overview of the types of nonimmigrant and immigrant visas that can be used for work, as well as other types of noncitizens who can get work permission. There is a link in each classification to more information about the standards for that classification. An company will often file a petition with USCIS on your behalf if they want to hire you temporarily as a nonimmigrant living in the United States. The main types of temporary nonimmigrant workers are explained on the Temporary (Nonimmigrant) Workers page. If you have the right skills, schooling, and/or work experience, you might be able to get an employment-based immigrant visa and live and work in the United States permanently. It is usually necessary to get a visa from the U.S. Department of State (DOS) if you live outside of the U.S. and want to work here, unless people from your home country don't need visas. To find out more, go

Why Are Brazilians Flocking to the US? A Comprehensive Analysis

OMG, like when the environment changes for good and messes up where people live, it's like sooo not cool.    Sea-level rise and super hot weather can totally force people to move. But, like, it's super rare for this kinda thing to happen in crowded places, so we couldn't really figure out how people usually act in this situation, ya know? The tea on climate change's impact on pop and econ growth Yo, mad studies have been tryna predict how migration gonna go down when climate and the environment start changin'. A recent report by the World Bank like totally calculated how many peeps gonna bounce cuz of the environment by 2050, and it's like somewhere between 92 and 143 million, fam (Kumari Rigaud et al. 2018). The geographical areas more lit in these estimated figures are like from sub-Saharan Africa (~60%), South Asia (~28%), and South America (~12%).  BTW, the study says that if we like, totally implement ways to deal with climate change and stuff, along with b

Can Brazilians Work in the USA? A Legal Overview

  Emerging countries went through big changes in the 1990s. Economies that were closed were opened up to foreign investment, and many state-owned businesses were sold off. There were big changes in Brazil's legal system because of this "global transformation." The corporate legal field saw the most change. This sector is made up of all the organizations and people that give legal help to businesses, whether they are domestic, international, public, or private. The globalization process caused big changes in the national political economy, a lot of new laws that rule business activities, and a need for new types of legal services to help companies deal with the new laws. This caused a lot of institutions that offer legal services to businesses to grow very quickly. It also changed how lawyers worked and how they were organized. There are a lot of things that changed the way lawyers work, what their jobs are, and how they perceive their profession. As a result, a new and

Brazilians in the US: Understanding the Migration Surge

Yo, what's good? Let's get this party started!   The big increase of refugees from Syria and the always high arrivals across the Mediterranean Sea since 2011 have like totally added to a sense of emergency taking hold of public and policy responses to migration into the EU. They totally hyped up the idea of, like, a major exodus happening from Sub Saharan Africa to Europe64. The vibe of urgency suggests that migration is like, seen as a total unexpected issue to be solved instead of, like, a natural part of globalization and development. Our analysis of drivers in chapter 3 be like describing the lit forces that have shaped world migrations since the 1980s, fam. These forces be creating the preconditions for migration and be determining emigration potential from each country, ya know? Yo, like, in addition, the vibes between countries and, like, the presence of diasporas, they lowkey help us predict that the migration flow will, like, mostly follow the same old patterns between

Employment Options in the USA for Brazilian Citizens

  Brazil takes up almost 48% of South America. It has a population that is growing quickly, a lively business scene, and a lot of natural resources that make it a popular place for tourists, professionals from other countries, and international companies. Foreigners who want to go to Brazil for work must get the right paperwork to enter and stay in the country. But if a foreigner wants to come to Brazil for business or pleasure, the process is less complicated because most countries don't need visitor visa stamps in their passports. There are many rules about who can come to Brazil, but getting a visa and understanding the different types are easy. Visas for work Foreigners coming to Brazil to provide professional or technical help as part of a work contract or cooperation agreement may be able to get temporary prior residence as long as their work permit is approved by the Secretariat of Labor. Professionals with a job contract Most expats are moving within the same business. An

The Pull of the US: Why Are Brazilians Moving?

Implications 4 the future migration emerging from the analysis of the drivers   The results of the empirical investigation presented in Chapter 3 show that income has amajor flex on migration in middle income countries of origin. It's like, income be like "come on, let's migrate!" This lowkey shows that when the income per capita gets lit, more people bounce to those countries. A similar lit relation is found in the case of the model for the individual drivers of migration where the likelihood for prep for migration increases when moving from the lower to higher quintiles of the income distribution. The tea is that the connection between cash flow and peacing out is lit only for middle income countries, but it's not clear for low income countries and straight up negative for high income countries.  This backs up the macro level migration theory, fam. OMG at the micro level, it's like saying that getting more money can totally help people move by like, making i