Immigration: Let's make it work for us!

Day 1,523, 02:39 Published in Australia Australia by Ouke Stinos

the relevant discussion in the forums


G'day again, eAustralia!

The exact reason we're accepting other players into our country, is an issue to which perhaps we haven't given much thought. My view is, immigration has to benefit Australia as the host country, before anything else.
However, it seems our approach so far is little more than a naive hope to see perhaps our numbers grow. Numbers are our weakness. And because of this, we're letting eAustralia be taken advantage of. How?


Let me explain:

It is my estimate that 8 out of 10 cases in the immigration dossier, are nothing more than tax/currency shirkers. Foreign, rather well-off players, who want to make q4 raw companies with our cheap currency and then run off. Allies or foes, they change back CS within 1 month and disband their companies back home at a huge profit (Poland USA Serbia Croatia &c).

These people usually don't stay here more than 1 month. They don't necessarily come here to fight, produce, pay taxes or integrate. These people USE us, exploiting our hopes that they are coming to help make Australia grow or hit harder. It's not even certain they fight for us; most of them cling to the 'old country', to which they'll hurry back once they load up with q4raws. These people are only interested on how to make a profit, and we give them a free ride.


So, why not make things fair, for Australia?

I propose that, once an immigration application has been screened and approved, we further ask the applicant to deposit a fixed sum in gold as a guarantee;
If the applicant stays for a prescribed amount of time as eAus citizen, they will be entitled to get their money back. Otherwise they forfeit the sum.

While this won't completely stop the currency shoppers from visiting us (they'll just factor this in as an expense in their profit calculations and carry on as usual) Australia can make a clever buck out of it. Money collected and not reclaimed, can be put to good use, such as education programmes and financing genuine eAus player's growth.

Australia first!
Ouke Stinos
eAus Senator