Work to residency in 2022 Crispin R. Aranda BARRING a surge in Covid-19 variants from India or Brazil, the five Desti-Nations for Filipinos are poised to welcome workers and skilled migrants as permanent residents. While there had been calls for caution after the Centers for Disease Control and Protection (CDC) announced a return to normality in dining, playing, working and studying without masks for “fully vaccinated” individuals, the majority of Americans have a common phrase of relief: “We have all longed for this moment.” It is expected that with businesses and the economy reopening, jobs will come back to life as workers return, spurred in part by the prospect of no new stimulus checks coming.