The parent tweet is someone from India. Current green card wait times are approximately 10 years[1] right now. Given the length of the green card wait time you

The parent tweet is someone from India. Current green card wait times are approximately 10 years[1] right now. Given the length of the green card wait time you usually need some other visa (such as H1B) that will allow you to still live in the USA before you can actually apply for green card. Currently the H1B lottery approves less than half of the people who apply. So if you are trying to immigrate from India you are looking at: H1B (1-4 years depending lottery luck) Green Card (10+ years) Time to become US citizen (1-2 years from what you posted) So as a highly skilled advanced degree holder from India (the case of this Tweet) the overall time is 12-16 years and that is still no guarantee due to H1B being a lottery. [1] https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/green-card-waiting-time-by-country https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/green-car... (See EB-2 and EB-3)