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Can this really be termed as immigration discrimination? If everyone who applied magically got their green cards today, would it be a fair distribution? The is

• cuteboy19 4y ago
  I think they are talking about the "group by country_of_origin limit 7%" clause of the green card system. So tiny Monaco and China have the same cap of immigrants per year
  • baybal2 4y ago
  • amf12 4y ago
    nit: its "group by country_of_birth". A person's family could be Monaco citizens living in India, where the person was born, and that person too would have to wait decades.
• rhaway84773 4y ago
  No they don’t. If you’re born in India and you get approved for your green card (note, this situation arises at the end of the process, after you’ve been approved for the green card), you have to wait 180 years to get it. About 50 years if you were born in China. And immediately if you were born anywhere else. Your citizenship doesn’t even matter.
  • sirius87 4y ago
    It's a bit of a stretch to claim "discrimination" based on the current volume of approved applicants and country-of-birth queues. A policy would have to take into consideration past approvals as well. If you go by past approvals, people born in countries ex India, China may very well make the case that approvals have been discriminatory against them. The ridiculously longer wait period is absurd though. It's equivalent to a rejection, but having it so probably allows a policy change in the future to fast-track them in queue order.