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Old 05-11-2006, 09:32 AM   #682
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There are a couple large Russians communities in Seattle (or at least there were a decade ago. I assume they're still there. And down in the Portland/Vancouver area their numbers swelled following the fall of the Soviet Union. By the end of the '90s my mom's employees were all almost entirely Russian immigrants.

In San Francisco about 200 out of the 1,500 people in my division at Wells Fargo were Russian immigrants (almost all worked in QA, there is a QA school in San Francisco that caters to Russians).

My experience is that most are legal, though, as the quota restrictions on Russians were pretty lax following the end of the cold war. I don't know if they've been tightened since.
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