Would You Qualify? Take the Test.
Do you have what it takes to immigrate to America under President Donald Trump’s proposed rules? Probably not.
TIME magazine turned the requirements for Trump’s RAISE Act, a point system, into a questionnaire, and people are posting their results to Twitter.
Veteran journalist Helen Kennedy, for example, says she’s a no:
Applicants would have to accumulate 30 points.
Trump’s requirements give a large number of points to people who are young. If you’re over 50, you get zero points on that marker.Â
Those with no high school diploma get zero points. A bachelors degree from outside the U.S. nets just five points. From an American college or university, six points.
Fluent English speaking applicants, which Trump stressed last week he wanted when he rolled out his proposal, get 12 points, a large number.
No job offer or an offer with a salary of $77,900, about 38% higher than the national average ($56,516), nets you, yup, zero points. Above $77,900 nets just five points. A whopping $155,800 nets 13 points.
Curiously, a Nobel Prize gets you almost a guarantee: 25 points, and an Olympic medal – in the past eight years only – gets you half the way here: 15 points.
Are you loaded and plan on investing cash in the U.S.? Congratulations! Foreign currency worth at least $1.8 million (U.S.) to invest in a new commercial enterprise gives you 12 points.
How did others do?
U.S. film director and writer for The Advocate: Nope –
Social Media Editor at HuffPost: Nope –
Novelist, columnist, professor: Nope –
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author: Nope –
President of National Women’s Political Caucus, LA Metro: Nope –
Economist, PhD candidate University of Michigan Center for Sustainable Systems. Carnegie Mellon University alum: Nope –
Immigration attorney: Nope –
Teacher: Nope –
For the record, yours truly would not qualify either.
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