I actually looked into migrating a bit under Bush and they were more lax then. It was at least a year waiting list, you often had to have a marketable skill of some sort in demand in the country or enough money to basically never work again there. You had to have a clean record, pay several thousand for paperwork and lawyers, wait for approval, some wanted you to try and find employment before hand. It’s probably much stricter no as I doubt I could immigrate to Canada from the USA. They’re looking primarily for healthcare workers now and a lot of places because of their aging populations and lower birth rates. It’s nuts.