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Umm no. Everyone but Indian/Chinese H1b holder, get their green card in 1-2 years.

outworlder 6y ago
> Umm no. Everyone but Indian/Chinese H1b holder, get their green card in 1-2 years. That's false. Maybe this was true in the past. First, they cannot self-sponsor. Which means that the hypothetical company would have to apply as soon as they step foot on US soil. There are no incentives to do so and incentives against it. So they generally won't. Expect the process to start a couple of years before the H1B visa is set to expire. Even if started immediately, just for processing time alone you are looking at around 2 years. 2 to 6 months for the PERM process. I-140, similar. The AOS stage can take 10 (or more!) months to process. The last two can be filed concurrently. It's still one year on the absolute best case with no RFEs or audits whatsoever, counting from the moment the application was filed, assuming all documentation is instantly available (like employment verification letters from past workers, translations etc) and assuming lawyer time is zero (which obviously is not the case). Of course, if you are Indian or Chinese, add years or decades to the above.
- muzaffarpur 6y ago
  If you work at FAANG, they file immediately(and many more do, it's not a big deal). Are you aware for rest of world i-485 and i-140 can be filed concurrently.
- Skunkleton 6y ago
  > Of course, if you are Indian or Chinese, add years or decades to the above. My understanding (I have always been a citizen of the US) is that the processing time to get a green card if you are Indian is so long it might as well not be an option.
  - digianarchist 6y ago
    Back log is roughly 1.5 million. Indians get 7% of the 140,000 employment based green cards each year plus any run off. It’ll never clear without reform.
    - Skunkleton 6y ago
      The H1B system is so unkind. We invite people into our country, only to trap them with a particular employer with the constant threat of losing work authorization. Then we don’t even lay down specific rules on how one can get out of this situation.

> Umm no. Everyone but Indian/Chinese H1b holder, get their green card in 1-2 years. That's false. Maybe this was true in the past. First, they cannot self-sponsor. Which means that the hypothetical company would have to apply as soon as they step foot on US soil. There are no incentives to do so and incentives against it. So they generally won't. Expect the process to start a couple of years before the H1B visa is set to expire. Even if started immediately, just for processing time alone you are looking at around 2 years. 2 to 6 months for the PERM process. I-140, similar. The AOS stage can take 10 (or more!) months to process. The last two can be filed concurrently. It's still one year on the absolute best case with no RFEs or audits whatsoever, counting from the moment the application was filed, assuming all documentation is instantly available (like employment verification letters from past workers, translations etc) and assuming lawyer time is zero (which obviously is not the case). Of course, if you are Indian or Chinese, add years or decades to the above.

muzaffarpur 6y ago
If you work at FAANG, they file immediately(and many more do, it's not a big deal). Are you aware for rest of world i-485 and i-140 can be filed concurrently.
Skunkleton 6y ago
> Of course, if you are Indian or Chinese, add years or decades to the above. My understanding (I have always been a citizen of the US) is that the processing time to get a green card if you are Indian is so long it might as well not be an option.
- digianarchist 6y ago
  Back log is roughly 1.5 million. Indians get 7% of the 140,000 employment based green cards each year plus any run off. It’ll never clear without reform.
  - Skunkleton 6y ago
    The H1B system is so unkind. We invite people into our country, only to trap them with a particular employer with the constant threat of losing work authorization. Then we don’t even lay down specific rules on how one can get out of this situation.