Is getting an engineering degree worth it?
I don't know Southern Europe well (Italy?), but in the US the engineering degree will probably beat the law degree in terms of career success, on average, over the next decade or so. The returns to the law degree in the US have taken a real thrashing in recent years, especially with the proliferation of for-profit law schools that put their students in debt and offer no real job prospects.The Law-School ScamIn addition, engineering and the STEM fields are highly sought after in the US job market, and we routinely have to import foreign labor to meet the demand, as there is a shortage of domestic STEM talent. You also need to consider that the law degree (again, in the US) requires an additional graduate degree (and associated tuition) and certification before you can start working. The vast majority of engineering jobs only require the bachelor's, and only some require certification. Of course, this will vary with the law school and the engineering school. Harvard Law graduates probably still do pretty well (I imagine), and low-ranking engineering programs may not do so well in comparison, but on average engineering will probably do better.To make a comparison for your country, you need to take a much more realistic and comprehensive look at the future career prospects of your peers who are getting high and partying all the time. Will they all really make more money? Or is it just a handful of anecdotal success stories that are being passed around ("oh I know a guy who is a lawyer and he makes a ton of money"). You need to find out what happens on average, especially for people with a given level of intelligence and ambition. If your peers are partying all the time, they don't seem very driven or ambitious, and it's hard to imagine them doing really well at anything.That being said, law naturally works differently in every country, because it is a function of government. So maybe your government has an easy fast track for lawyers who can barely study, party all the time, and make a lot of money. Such a job would probably require inside connections, I imagine. Maybe it is better for you to be on this fast track if it exists.And there's really nothing wrong with having fun and partying, if that's what you want. You are likely going to have to sacrifice something to get that lifestyle though.
Is it legal for a US minor to drink in another country?
your friend is wrong when your in another country you follow the laws of that country also you will be punished by the laws of that country which are much stiffer than some laws here in the states
If I Get Married in a Foreign Country, Am I Still Legally Married in My Home Country?
It would depend a bit on the laws of your home country (with or without capitalisation, come to think of it).For example, if you were to marry a spouse of the same gender as you, there would be some countries whch wouldn’t recognise that marriage, even though it was entirely valid under the laws of the country in which it took place. A relatively large number (as these things go) of Australians were in that situation before marriage equality was legalised here, for example - it was entirely possible to marry someone of the same gender in the US or UK, or even right “next door” in New Zealand, but such a marriage didn’t have legal validity in Australia.I believe that there may be some countries where inter-faith marriages (and possibly even inter-racial ones) aren’t recognised. Again, such a marriage could be less than official under those circumstances.If, however, you’re getting married to someone you could just as easily marry at home, but you just thought that a beach wedding in Fiji or having the ceremony performed by an Elvis impersonator in Las Vegas was more “you”, then you’ll find it’s more than likely to be legal.
I was wondering why illegal aliens come over the way they do?
It is not easy to get into this country legally, but most things worth doing are not easy. As you said no other country, including Mexico, allows free and undeterred migration to their country so why should the USA. The USA is a major terrorist target and we must KNOW who is coming into our country to protect our people and property from attack. It is about the greater good. We could open our boarders and allow any and all who want to cross to come in but then how safe would they be after the bombings, gassing and killings started.
Is 15 years worth waiting for a green card?
No. US immigration system is plain stupid.The way they act towards some of h1b green card processing is copycat slavery 2.0 .The major flaw to it is the racial quota assignments. The end result being that some ethnicities are strongly penalized by their ethnicity alone. It works like this, imagine you come from a country that is scarcely represented in US, you apply for GC and you get it in 6 months. However if you come from a country that is strongly represented, India and China for instance, you will be put in a seemingly bottomless limbo.I care not if Americans want to keep their diversity. For that, however, they must stop accepting h1b programs from certain countries, the same as they do with GC lottery. They do not do it because they need the Chinese and Indian engineers and software developers in their country and this leads to following.They hold some of these people for 15 years, bind them to certain jobs that can potentially treat them as slaves, with the option of take it or leave it and every year they give them partial heart attack while they process their visa extension and in the meanwhile they keep delaying their applications.If you are a person of valor, if you can contribute to our country and if you deserve Canada, our country door is open. We will treat you with respect and as one of us.Seriously, I know people who lived there legally for 25 years and couldn’t get their green card. It’s shameful.In Canada, it is considered a negative point if you need to consult an immigration lawyer. The steps are clear, the wait time is clear, the point system is clear. If you need a lawyer for any of it, it either means that you can’t read or write or that you have a problem in your file, both of them will come back to haunt you. In US reversely, apparently everyone needs to have a lawyer and pay bucket loads of money to them as well.I may go further and say that those lawyers perhaps have lobbyists that make sure that the process never becomes transparent so that they wouldn’t lose their income source. For this last paragraph, I have no evidence but in this lobbyist country, it’s not an unlikely scenario.
Does it matter what country I study law in?
It's best if you study law in the country in which you plan to practice law. At a minimum, you need to study law in a country which has a legal system based in the same type of law as that in which you study. Otherwise, you're studying the wrong law, and you'll be of no use to law firms in the country you want to practice in - you won't get hired. In addition, in the US, most states will not let foreign-educated lawyers sit their "bar" exams - the exam that lets you practice law. So if you did study law in the UK, you would actually need to get an LLM - masters in laws - in the US to be able to sit the bar exam. In addition x 2, you have to consider work visa issues. If you are not already legal to work in a country, how likely is it that you'd be able to get a work visa there? Finally, note that unlike in some other countries, in the US, the law is a post-graduate course only. You can't study it for your bachelors degree.