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Why do companies use the H1B process if they can use the Green card process? Is it just that they have more control over the employee? Or the process is actuall

• dragonwriter 13y ago
  > Why do companies use the H1B process if they can use the Green card process? The immigrant visa ("Green Card") process for employment-based categories, as for family-based categories, uses both global and per-country limits which apply after candidates are qualified (including having a sponsoring employer!) but limit the rate at which visas are granted, which means that for countries from which there are the most qualified applicants in many categories face the longest delays from the date they become qualified to the date they actually are granted a visa. The most oversubscribed source for employment-based immigration, India, has categories in which the delay is 10 years, and there are certain categories where the delay for any country is over 3 years. (And this is still better than family-based immigration, where the longest waitlist country/category combination is 23 years!)