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>Apparently the administration was trying to punish people married to illegal immigrants, and all the people suffering through the legal and extremely slow immi

>Apparently the administration was trying to punish people married to illegal immigrants, and all the people suffering through the legal and extremely slow immigration process get bundled in with them They say that, but under Stephen Miller almost every single aspect of legal immigration has been made harder, slower and more expensive than before. After all Steve Bannon said the high number of Asian CEOs in Silicon Valley is not compatible with a civic society and that it's worth it for the US to lose economically while restricting legal immigration. So what you encountered was a feature, not a bug.

legolas2412 6y ago
Now, that may be the media soundbite, the actual numbers may surprise you. In 2015, under the obama administration, out of 531k immigrant visas (green cards), only 21k were for employment based categories, with 8600 for investors (visas for sale), and only 11k for EB1,2,3 categories (that is high skilled employees of companies and academics/professors in universities). In 2019, out of 462k green cards, there were 28k employment visas, with 16k for EB1,2,3 categories. So, an asian would have a better opportunity to get a green card and subsequently become CEO under the trump administration. Both republcians and democrats want this feature of preventing high skilled immigration. [1] https://travel.state.gov/content/dam/visas/Statistics/AnnualReports/FY2019AnnualReport/FY19AnnualReport-%20TableI.pdf https://travel.state.gov/content/dam/visas/Statistics/Annual... [2] https://travel.state.gov/content/dam/visas/Statistics/AnnualReports/FY2019AnnualReport/FY19AnnualReport-%20TableII.pdf https://travel.state.gov/content/dam/visas/Statistics/Annual...
- dalyons 6y ago
  FYI as an immigrant on a visa(so im attuned to this stuff) availability of visas and greencards lowered drastically in 2020. Some of it was purportedly "due to the pandemic" but it was mostly barriers miller/trump wanted to introduce anyway. I would expect the 2020 numbers to be much lower, and if this administration had stayed in power, continued to be much lower into 2021+.

legolas2412 6y ago

Now, that may be the media soundbite, the actual numbers may surprise you. In 2015, under the obama administration, out of 531k immigrant visas (green cards), only 21k were for employment based categories, with 8600 for investors (visas for sale), and only 11k for EB1,2,3 categories (that is high skilled employees of companies and academics/professors in universities). In 2019, out of 462k green cards, there were 28k employment visas, with 16k for EB1,2,3 categories. So, an asian would have a better opportunity to get a green card and subsequently become CEO under the trump administration. Both republcians and democrats want this feature of preventing high skilled immigration. [1] https://travel.state.gov/content/dam/visas/Statistics/AnnualReports/FY2019AnnualReport/FY19AnnualReport-%20TableI.pdf https://travel.state.gov/content/dam/visas/Statistics/Annual... [2] https://travel.state.gov/content/dam/visas/Statistics/AnnualReports/FY2019AnnualReport/FY19AnnualReport-%20TableII.pdf https://travel.state.gov/content/dam/visas/Statistics/Annual...

dalyons 6y ago
FYI as an immigrant on a visa(so im attuned to this stuff) availability of visas and greencards lowered drastically in 2020. Some of it was purportedly "due to the pandemic" but it was mostly barriers miller/trump wanted to introduce anyway. I would expect the 2020 numbers to be much lower, and if this administration had stayed in power, continued to be much lower into 2021+.