This chapter discusses some of the up-to-date roadblocks to reforming debt migration and residency in Thailand, the United States, South Korea, and Taiwan by examining Southeast Asia and East Asia debates about migrant worker integration that always stops short of granting permanent residency as opposed to Canadian and US approaches. But even now there is a racketing up of hostile immigration and migration reforms based on deportation. Debt migration continues to be the norm, while international standards demanding social protections have regressed. Furthermore, while the structure of government-to-government (GtoG) placement and employer direct hiring was previously considered more suitable, mobility still is not viewed as a right but a privilege of the cosmopolitan elite. Shifting the normalization without denying rights to temporary migrant workers will be challenging. The chapter discusses the issue of residency and citizenship at the end. While Taiwan grants 12 continuous years of work in-country still barring permanent residency, Thailand and South Korea require the return after less than 5 years under a work contract to prohibit qualifications toward permanent residency. Asian countries base citizenship on different combinations of blood, home registrations, and marriage with offspring. While the region and world reel from Covid-19 and the re-emergence of political authoritarian regimes, transitioning migrant workers into permanent immigrants in the countries they live and work in seems an impossibility. Yet the contradictions between ASEAN integration/Asian multiculturalism and xenophobia signal that there may be a change yet to come.