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No offense but I don't think you really have a grasp of the US immigration system. It's very difficult to immigrate or even get a temporary work visa. It's easi
by cylinder 10y ago
No offense but I don't think you really have a grasp of the US immigration system. It's very difficult to immigrate or even get a temporary work visa. It's easier if you are the relative of a US citizen, but even then if you are mainland Chinese born or Indian you have to wait in a long queue unless you are the spouse of a US citizen.
- user5994461 10y agoVery difficult is an understatement. It's basically close to impossible to work in the US for a EU or russian citizen. Source: Friends of me who want to move to the USA. I'm talking people with rare qualifications with a company ready to take them at $200k base salary and the layers to do all the paperwork for the H1B. They just can't get a fu----- VISA.
- cylinder 10y agoYes, even in a situation like that, it still comes down to, literally, a lottery (one with zero transparency). Compare with the independent skilled migration systems of Australia, Canada and NZ.
- bonzini 10y agoIf a sponsor employer would give them that salary, and they have rare qualifications, maybe they should apply for O1 rather than H1B. I helped a guy with a recommendation letter for O1, and it wasn't hard. He basically gave me a template that I customized with data specific to work we had done together. I am not even American.
- khuey 10y agoThere's a long queue for permanent residency for certain countries. The process of getting a temporary work visa is largely the same for a Chinese or Indian national as it is for an EU or Japanese national though.