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Funnily, due to country quotas that 7-9 yr wait on employment-based green cards is almost exclusively Indian problem.
by shas3 11y ago
Funnily, due to country quotas that 7-9 yr wait on employment-based green cards is almost exclusively Indian problem.
- klipt 11y agoEven for non-Indians it takes 2-3 years thanks to USCIS's general bureaucratic inefficiency. Even a naturalized American who loses their certificate of naturalization and applies for a replacement copy has to wait 6 months for USCIS to issue a single piece of paper!
- hibikir 11y agoToday, sure. 5 years ago, the EB2 and EB3 quotas for all other countries were almost as long, but this changes over time. For instance, in 2007, the line was 5 years after labor certification, so, in practice, about 6 years for everyone. Nowadays that to get an H1B you need to go through a lottery, the big Indian outsources are increasing their percentage of H1Bs, making the problem both harder for India, and easier for the rest of the world. Instead of waiting 5 or 6 years like I did, now you probably can't stay in the US, but if you can, the green card is easier. It's a downright bizarre situation.