No more than 7% of EB Green Cards can be awarded to a single country and where you are born (not citizenship) determines which country you are allocated to.

The backlog for Indian born persons is over 100 years as a result.

https://www.cato.org/blog/18-million-employment-based-green-...

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esseph an hour ago | parent [-]

How is that a US problem?

Why should other people from other countries not be able to come here because a billion Indians want to migrate?

I don't think it's a US problem, that's a India problem.

I will say, I think the whole immigration system is a mess and I think it should be much easier and faster to immigrate to a different country as long as you can find work and meet the new country's various requirements. The systems that we have now globally pretty much suck.

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QGQBGdeZREunxLe 29 minutes ago | parent [-]

It's fine to think this way but don't claim to be for meritocracy if you elevate one useless trait above the merit of others.

	▲	esseph 12 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		It can be a meritocracy while allowing equal access regardless of where one is born. The whole idea is to allow for assimilation into the culture, not a replacement to any new dominant culture.