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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),
by 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 agoFYI 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+.