As Trump Tightens Legal Immigration, Canada Woos Tech Firms

The following article by Liz Robbins was posted on the New York Times website December 19, 2017:

Datalogue, a New York City start-up, decided to open a Montreal office rather than go through the expensive and uncertain process of trying to get visas for immigrant workers in the United States.CreditRenaud Philippe for The New York Times

A Flatiron district artificial intelligence start-up was recently looking to expand, adding new engineers who happened to know a niche computer language.

The people it hired hail from Morocco, Belarus, France, Georgia and Canada. But they are not working in New York. They are in Montreal, where immigration policies make it possible to get work permits within two weeks, and the Canadian tech industry is aggressively trying to woo foreign companies. Continue reading “As Trump Tightens Legal Immigration, Canada Woos Tech Firms”