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All of this sounds like a win-win for the US and you: You don't like their policy and they don't want you in the country.

> Could we stop meaningless language policing?

The law of your new country is already taking care of that. There's a clear legal definition to "refugee" in Canada. You aren't one: you are an economic migrant.

> Even under UN definition, someome forced to leave their home due to unfair treatments is a refugee

You are more than welcome to apply for refugee status if you believe to be eligible under the legal defition of the term. I'm sure a lawyer will be happy to take your money and help you file for it.

But from the sound of it you were denied entry into the US because you failed a criminal/security background check. Maybe I wouldn't brag about it to the Canadian authorities...

> Yet I ended up surprisingly being denied entry by the US CBP

Did it have anything to do with failing a background check? Often, denials aren't as "surprising" as they seem.

H1B reform has nothing to do with skin color.

I suspect the real answer to that is that we'll need 10x less engineers than right now long term.

> I don’t see how it makes economic sense for Canada at that point

It doesn't.

Look at immigration numbers from 2000 to 2026 and overlay them with productivity per capita and GDP per capita.

> highly skilled foreigners.

All of whom would have no problem securing an O-1.

The H-1B is a mess, in no small part because you can have world-class contributors and low-skill, entry-level positions applying for the same visa.

> I mean Canada has jumped so many times in last 8-10 years with these express residencies, hiring H1B laid off workers, grabbing people who are stuck with travel restrictions to US I'd have thought they be half way to the moon.

What if I told you the people Canada really want have no issues getting a US work visa/Green Card?

Check out O-1 visas and EB-1/2.

That's 2+ years of full-time school. Residential electrical work has little to do with electrical engineering.

The big problem is that when issuing immigrant visas, the Canadian government uses a point system (age, degree, etc.) that never actually checks for employability. In other words, it doesn't ask, "Is someone willing to pay Canadian wages for these skills and credentials?"

The federal government will give extra points to an applicant with an engineering degree without ever bothering to check whether the immigrant's degree would be accepted by an accredited licensing board.

In some cases, it's possible to get accredited by passing a series of exams (the same ones given to 22-year-old new grads). Figuring out why the pass rates are so low for foreign applicants without a mutually recognized degree is left as an exercise for the reader...

> US tech refugees

Could we hold off on using the term "refugee" here? My partner works with actual refugees. We're talking about a 12 year old Ukrainian girl who last saw her father comatose in a hospital bed with both legs torn off, and who witnessed her entire neighborhood turned into rubble. I doubt you and your wife moving from a safe country to another safe country makes you a refugee of any kind. Call it what it is: you are economic migrants.

> indefinitely held for security checks

Canada has been known to be extremely lenient when it comes to background checks, which, honestly, is something that should be addressed if we want to maintain the free movement of people between the two countries.