No. of people getting GC/yr altered? Or just you will see more Indian and Chinese getting GC instead of those of small country.
Pretty much all immigrants from countries other than China and India will oppose to this so I don’t see a slight chance that this will happen.
Since when do immigrants have influence on immigration legislation? There is a good chance of this happening since there is support among both democrats and republicans for this policy.
Even most of the Chinese are opposing to this. Source: Chinese myself
We should just have an immigration World Cup with playoffs, etc. Accept only the best LeetCoders.
So, one year, if Turkey wins the finals, Turkey gets 50% of all the immigration slots!
Number of DACA recipients just from Mexico alone is over 55 years of employment based green card recipients from India. Let that sink in. Yeah sure diversity is the most important factor to consider for immigration. I mean diversity as a factor is important in diversity visa, but when it comes to skills based immigration, wtf is diversity got to do. Set the bar high but treat individuals as individuals. I personally wouldn't bet on anything changing though. My plan is save as much as possible, get to 1.5-2 million and go do something meaningful in India.
Woah, 1.5 to 2 mil???
Some bootstrap money for a startup and rest for comfortable life/financial security for future.
DACA recipients are basically illegal immigrants . Canceling their benefits was one of trumps sanest policies. I didn’t understand why democrats had such a problem with that. Maybe they were banking on the fact that these additions to the electorate will help them in future polls.
DACA recipients are kids who were brought to the US illegally by their parents. They grew up here, had no say in that and this country is all they know. It is really inhuman to kick them out for no fault of theirs’.
That doesn’t make illegal legal though, but I get what you mean.
Those who are arguing against removal of this per country quota cap need to understand the facts. When you are hired, is it legal to hire you based on your country of birth? Not your passport but country of birth. So for e.g. if you are Canadian passport holder but were born in India, by law during employment process no one can discriminate against you. However by law, when you apply for a green card, you are put in a different line based on country of birth. Why? Becuase of antiquated rule of diversity. Does making a sensible rule change change of giving out greencard onfirst come first serve of basis not make sense?
When has loosening restrictions EVER been a good thing? Especially when you know the likes of InfoSys and such will stand to profit from it? If a water pipe is leaking, you don't fix it by finding a bigger bucket to catch the leak, you fix the leak.
Then make GC process independent of employer, like how Australia and Canada do it. No company can profiteer that way.
Let’s abolish the country quota in GC. Then everybody including Indians will have to wait for like 20 years (and the wait time will keep going up) as majority of GC filing people are Indians. Sounds fair m, isn’t it? Let’s increase the overall quota then. I am pretty sure the salary for engineers and work hours will become similar to India soon. Great for all of you guys. Now it is fair to everyone. Companies will no longer have to pay for atrocious salary to these software engineers as supply will be much much more than demand. There will be countless number of engineers willing to sacrifice their personal lives for their kids future so now companies can achieve greater goals with cheap labor. They will be willing to work oncall all the time so the output will be amazing. I think top 5% talents in India will beat American talents so brining all of them with GC would guarantee additional 15% as there will be kids and spouse as well. 20% of Indians coming to US will do only good things to US. As a bonus, Americans can learn from superior Indian culture. In fact, there will be more Indians than Americans so we truly make peace with fair opportunity to live in this land of opportunities. Cheers!
This is just a troll or someone who has no idea how immigration system works in the country. If you remove per country quota. Two things still remain constant. The input to the system I.e number of h1bs issued every year and output from the system. I.e. number of greencard issued every year. Those limits have not changed and there are 130k green cards given every year. There are 1.5 million people stuck in backlog. It will take over 10 years to clear the backlog. The bad actors know this and bring in h1b from india every year and bid for contract work at lower rates and harm American wages. If you took away the system where people came in here on h1b and got stuck in limbo state they will have more portability and mobile workforce is able to demand better wages and the market is more fair as it is no longer looking at cost as a criteria. Your rant shows your ignorance of this issue and does not add anything of value to the discussion
As Chinese I am opposing to removal of country cap as well. Our wait time is only 3-4 years, while Indians want to have everyone wait for 3-4 years to clear their huge backlog, what’s in there for me?
It's fair for everyone on first come first serve basis. Any bias in the processing timeframe based on the country of birth in an employment based category is racist. Indians are being punished for the country of their birth.
System treats everyone the same vs system treats one country of birth as different than the rest. Do you stand for fairness and justice in your life ?
You are basically asking rest of world to sacrifice to solve Indian fraudster’s problem (not all but large percent). You have a hard time convincing majority of the left leaning tech workers here and think the American public will buy in? And what’s in there for US corporations? Not gonna happen, better chance pruning the bodyshops so that your backlog will be brought down to the Chinese backlog level (3-4 years), speaking of practicality.
So I as an immigrant tech worker should prune the body shops? Lets say there are 1 million people in backlog. There are 65k New visas given every year plus 20k with us advanced degrees. Assuming 80 percent of these are fraudulent. We stop issuing all fraudulent visas magically. So now we are issuing 17k new h1b visas every year. And let's say now only 50 percent of these are Indian and the rest are non Indian. So the input to the system is 8.5k every year. These are all legit high skilled immigrants. This number does not include the spouses or children because they are not counted under the h1b cap but are counted in the employment based green card cap.Considering that there are 140k new employment based gc issued every year of which by per country quota only 7 percent are given to any country by birth every year. It will still take 100 years to clear the backlog. Lets say out of those 1 million people we go and find that 80 percent of these people were fraudulent and Trump throws them out. That leaves 200k people in the line. Given the current law it will take 20 years to clear this backlog. Does this method sound fair, reasonable and plausible? Yes I understand this app has bunch of left leaning folks but I thought left leaning means you stand for justice or is that just virtue signaling?
This is not gonna happen. Either stay here or go to Canada etc.