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I know a professor of computer science at arguably the best cs program in the world who is an Indian citizen and was only able to get a green card because he is

I know a professor of computer science at arguably the best cs program in the world who is an Indian citizen and was only able to get a green card because he is married to a citizen of a western european country. The system is completely fucked for Indian and Chinese citizens. Absolutely egregiously so. This is one of the reasons why I find the "just wait in line" argument so disingenuous. If it takes a world expert in a high importance topics literal decades to get a green card then there simply isn't a legitimate path available to people.

valarauko 5y ago
> If it takes a world expert in a high importance topics literal decades to get a green card For what it's worth, sounds like the professor would have qualified under the EB1A/B scheme, which even for Indians is "Current". The qualifications are not very hard to meet for someone working as a professor, or even a postdoctoral researcher.