https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAISE_Act#Full_details_of_the_points_system You would need 30 points to get a greencard if this becomes law. Poll open to everyone including citizens and greencard holders: would you qualify? Data to help you figure it: median household income is 75k in MA, 68k in CA, and 57k in WA. So you need between 170k to 225k income to get max job offer points depending on state. Note: exclude RSU.
I’m 21, so I’d get in by a hair in a few months. I fail to see what this solves.
What this solves is the garbage lottery system which does not involve you having any skills or cultural fit for immigration
What are the chances of this becoming a law?
Very little if any. Which kinda sucks,
When I took that full ride undergrad US degree, it was in hopes for such a merit based immigration system. I am pretty damn pissed off that I only gain 1 point on a graduate of Lovely Professional University (yes it’s a real university in india, google it)
Not if you live in Bay or even Seattle. 300k income is no that impressive there.
I don’t think the point system is cost of living adjusted :|
Just FYI, this act will cut # of greencards from 1 M to .5 M per year.
As long as they get rid of the country based and diversity quota, I won’t complain.
Do you think they will get rid of diversity quota? Not sure about that.. people who are sponsoring this act are anti immigrants. They don’t want non white immigrants.
34 checking in 😔
So far 62% are safely above the limit, even if USCIS challenged some points they'd get in, and another 32% scrape by with just enough points, assuming USCIS doesn't challenge any, and only a few people don't make the cut.
37, but my country has almost no backlog for green card anyway so, selfishly, doesn't really make much difference either way to me.
Well, if you had 27 then you wouldn't be immigrating, backlog or not.
34 or so. But no chance this will pass. :/
I am kinda surprised people on blind (immigrants) support this racist Raise Act proposal.
We're the people who benefit from it. I spent 3 years in the H1-B lottery before I finally won. Under a points based merit system I'd have made it straight in, assuming quotas weren't met, which they could have been. Many countries implement a points based immigration system successfully to make sure the economic needs of the country are being met. That said their points categories aren't normally so shallow and arbitrary as what's proposed in RAISE. Points based systems are intended to do what's best for the country, not racistly exclude people. Unless you call keeping people with no valuable skills out racist.
So you think you are superior to someone who works at Macdonald. Just FYI this is not England , USA was built on all men/humans are equal principal. Money or class or color of skin don’t make you superior to other less fortunate people. We don’t have kings/ queens and we don’t have class system also.
Nobel prize gets you 25 point, still below 30
I'm guessing almost all Nobel winners have at least an undergraduate degree.
It's not a prerequisite to have a bachelor's degree to be extraordinary. Just saying...