As usual, no reply to this comment is actually addressing the question: > Why shouldn’t we have per country caps? So, I'll give it a shot. Let's say that 1%

As usual, no reply to this comment is actually addressing the question: > Why shouldn’t we have per country caps? So, I'll give it a shot. Let's say that 1% of the human population happens to have great genius. They're the cream of the crop in terms of ability, though perhaps they lack opportunity. Statistically, where are most of them going to be born? In the most populous countries of course... If you choose a flat-rate cutoff for importing talent on a per-country basis, you're choosing "diversity" (of birthplace...which might not mean anything at all) over "talent". Which would be fine, except that this particular route to residency was ostensibly created to bring in talent specifically. Although, immigration is a highly politicized issue and practicality usually has little to no bearing on the policy in this area. It appears many other issues in America are heading that way...