I am working through an EB-1 visa because H1B was untenable (I'm a bootstrapped company cofounder AND an Indian citizen). It has been an extremely stressful, co

I am working through an EB-1 visa because H1B was untenable (I'm a bootstrapped company cofounder AND an Indian citizen). It has been an extremely stressful, constraining process with numerous hoops, large financial costs, several delays, requests for evidence (which they accepted basically with rewording the original petition), etc., and has taken over 1.5 years already, and I just received a final approval last week. I still haven't received the actual card, and have been given no date, no tracking#, no interview, nothing. Just "your petition was approved..go back to your stressful wait because it doesn't mean much until you get the document." In the meantime I'm not eligible for coverage under ACA, cannot be unemployed over 90 days, cannot leave the country, cannot work on anything to do with a defense contract, cannot risk commenting on politics on social media, etc. All this after I acquired a coveted O1A visa to move back in the first place, after 2 years of working on my company remotely while I was out of status. This hasn't been "dead simple" as gp implies Canadian merit-residencies are. Not in the slightest. It has been expensive, time consuming and stressful. It's been a constant distraction from my work for longer than the lifespan of most startups in Silicon Valley.