user wrote
I wish there was a comprehensive tutorial somewhere about how to leave Lebanon.
I think what is needed is a comprehensive tutorial on how to search the forums for old threads before posting a new one.
Regarding your question, I want to add that many countries have a "track" to work there through their educational system.
You would for example, as a student, have a limited right to work, during and after your studies for a limited time.
This is supposed to help you get into the work market and from there you can actually find permanent work especially if you are qualified enough.
This is the general idea, but in general it is always much harder for "foreigners" to get in the work market, in "developed" countries, no matter how they make it look and how much "help" you can get.
That is why so many immigrants end up starting their own (usually small) business.
Also, beware, the "skilled IT workforce shortage" is in big part a myth, I am guessing that this myth is encouraged by Microsoft and others (Facebook, whoever) so they can have much more cheap, fresh, desperate graduates to choose from, and so that the government will allow them to import more cheap labor from India.
If you see "thousands of less qualified people who have made it", keep in mind that there are many factors that can affect immigration:
- Many immigrate illegally
- Family immigration laws and political asylum and other special cases - it is much used
- Countries "open up" their immigration once in a while and accept many more persons. Canada is now for example facilitating fast track immigration - or so I read. But it is just an example, and I think it happened more in the past, like 20 years ago!
Finally, it is a traditional and classic thing in immigration that immigrants would be working in lowly-paid, mostly low skill, manual jobs (construction, whatever). Not sure why (that's another topic anyway) but it seems to be a phenomenon that manifests itself across different times and different places.
I'm sure there's more to it but you get the idea.