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>Would plans to make the requirements more strict(such as requiring them to work a high-paying job..) help alleviate this, since the queue will be shorter If i
by otalp 10y ago
>Would plans to make the requirements more strict(such as requiring them to work a high-paying job..) help alleviate this, since the queue will be shorter
If it does, the effects will only be seen in a couple of decades. A lot things can change by then. What would be better would a system where countries get green cards proportional to their population. It makes no sense for Fiji to be awarded the same number as India.
- MichaelBurge 10y ago> It makes no sense for Fiji to be awarded the same number as India. That makes sense, since it's reasonable to assume that high-quality employees are a percentage of the population. Having a global fixed number of immigrants rather than a per-country pool would also work: If A has a population of 10, B has a population of 20(with similar quality percentage), and the pool is 6, then A gets 1/2 the amount admitted as B. If A's population rises to 20, then they'd get the same amount as B. So it would be proportional to population within the pool. The only reason to prefer per-country fixed limits is if you wanted diversity. The meaning of "diversity" here is approximated by "variance of sampling immigrants' original home government from a uniform distribution over all governments".
- mavelikara 10y agoH.R.392: Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act of 2017 proposes to eliminate the per-country green card caps for precisely the reasons you mentioned. There is already a separate 50k green cards set aside for "diversity lottery", so that concern should not affect the desire to remove per-country caps for skilled immigration green cards.