I admit that I don't actually know what the rules for US greencards are, but my impression is they can't be as bad as the UK rules sound to be.
I'm really confused by what the point of having a visa category for people with an income of L150k/year: even from the US, which I suspect is one of the highest-income countries not in the EEA, that comes out to $225k/year, which according to http://politicalcalculations.blogspot.com/2013/09/what-is-your-us-income-percentile.html#.VTKHroUlyTq would put one in the 99th percentile of yearly individual incomes in the US.
Other interesting trivia: the highest possible US civil service salary for technical positions is that of a GS-15, Step 10 with the San Francisco locality adjustment, which comes out to $178k/year, so it sounds like no one working for NASA could actually qualify for a work visa to the UK? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Schedule_%28US_civil_service_pay_scale%29
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Date: 2015-04-18 04:44 pm (UTC)I'm really confused by what the point of having a visa category for people with an income of L150k/year: even from the US, which I suspect is one of the highest-income countries not in the EEA, that comes out to $225k/year, which according to http://politicalcalculations.blogspot.com/2013/09/what-is-your-us-income-percentile.html#.VTKHroUlyTq would put one in the 99th percentile of yearly individual incomes in the US.
Other interesting trivia: the highest possible US civil service salary for technical positions is that of a GS-15, Step 10 with the San Francisco locality adjustment, which comes out to $178k/year, so it sounds like no one working for NASA could actually qualify for a work visa to the UK? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Schedule_%28US_civil_service_pay_scale%29