I’m happy as well as sad. We are two brothers I’m younger. We used to live in Bihar. My mother has her family in Nepal. It just happened that my older brother was born in Bihar while I was born in Nepal just few kilometers from the border. We both had education in India and both came to US on student visa. He joined workforce 2 years before me. To make story short, I already got my I-485 approved but he is still waiting in line. Probably will take him at least 21 years after his first child is born. I did not know anything about green cards. What an unfair world we live in. I feel guilty and first time I now have feeling that I got something that shouldn’t belong to me. I can’t return it either. I can now feel what discrimination really is.
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You can get citizenship in 5 years and then sponsor him. Will take less then 21 years
Currently F4 category is at October 2005 for Indian nationals. Probably will take 100 years for my brother to get GC in ‘family category’
Wait,,, what is F4 category? I think it takes about 10 years to get GC through indirect family(lateral in your case)
Dude.. You have no idea what discrimination is if that is your definition of discrimination. And I'm an Indian
You are doing this to yourself. No one holds you to be in the US.
That’s same even for US citizens. That way citizens also shouldn’t complain?
You can definitely return it!
Don’t worry about it. Yes, it’s luck. So many things are. Be grateful for being lucky in this one case, rather than unlucky. As for the policy - yeah it’s discriminatory and a contradiction in the current system which may lead to its downfall. It’s always this way.
Congrats! GC is a privilege, lot of people forget that. Is per country quota rule unfair or unjust? Likely. But i hardly think it is discriminatory. Those who cringe about paying taxes and living a life of uncertainty on work visa, that is what we signed up for; we are not entitled for a GC just because we feel immigration affects us differently based on country of birth.
So your point is I’m entitled for GC but my brother’s family is not ?
Neither of us are entitled to GC. It’s not a right, it’s a privilege.
I was born in India as well but I totally support this system. Understandably, US does wants to new immigrants equally from all cultures and countries. Not having a cap like that would mean the country would get overrun by just Indians and Chinese. Like what is happening in Canada. It is a good system to keep a multi cultural, multi-ethnic society which includes everyone instead of creating new Bramptoms, Surreys and Richmonds. Nothing wrong with Indian and Chinese immigrants. They are awesome like anyone else but you can't overload the immigration with any one ethnicity for obvious reasons. Keep doing it US. It might be unfair to a lot of poeple, myself included but it is fairer and better for you from a broader perspective.
My brother lives in USA so does others who are in line. How is ethnic mix of USA impacted? Everyone is physically here and working for American companies. I don’t understand your logic. I don’t appreciate that you are calling my brother out as if he doesn’t belong here. Not cool bro
For a moment, get out of your head, stop thinking about your brother and look at the bigger picture. If you still can't see it then IDK what to tell you except I'll always support policies that enforce fair ethnic mix. I wish Canada had the same thing.
You could have bribed some people in Nepal and get a Nepalese birth certificate for your brother.
Place of birth on passport and other docs??? I don't think anyone thought about this even before applying for a passport or even coming to the US
nepal works on bribes. it is still possible to revert every documents
Country caps were instituted in 1953 (INA) when employment green cards were the only way to enter the USA. It stopped working as a cap since 1990 when visas like H1b were enacted into law. Today country caps do not limit immigration in any way - they in fact promote immigration by limiting worker mobility. Also as the pandemic demonstrated other laws nearly make this provision completely obsolete. Eliminating country caps in employment is a long overdue technical legal correction. Use your citizenship status - call your senators and retell your and your brother's story. Sooner or later these country caps in employment will be gone. The trouble is nobody knows when.
Later rather than sooner.
Or they should cap H1Bs to be equal so less people come here
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Congratulations dude… You should have never applied to make your brother happy
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