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Is 15 years worth waiting for a green card?

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Ali Shojaee Bakhtiari
Ali Shojaee Bakhtiari, I'm a proud Canadian immigrant.

o. US immigration system is plain stupid.

The way they act towards some of h1b green card processing is copycat slavery 2.0 .

The major flaw to it is the racial quota assignments. The end result being that some ethnicities are strongly penalized by their ethnicity alone. It works like this, imagine you come from a country that is scarcely represented in US, you apply for GC and you get it in 6 months. However if you come from a country that is strongly represented, India and China for instance, you will be put in a seemingly bottomless limbo.

I care not if Americans want to keep their diversity. For that, however, they must stop accepting h1b programs from certain countries, the same as they do with GC lottery. They do not do it because they need the Chinese and Indian engineers and software developers in their country and this leads to following.

They hold some of these people for 15 years, bind them to certain jobs that can potentially treat them as slaves, with the option of take it or leave it and every year they give them partial heart attack while they process their visa extension and in the meanwhile they keep delaying their applications.

If you are a person of valor, if you can contribute to our country and if you deserve Canada, our country door is open. We will treat you with respect and as one of us.

Seriously, I know people who lived there legally for 25 years and couldn’t get their green card. It’s shameful.

In Canada, it is considered a negative point if you need to consult an immigration lawyer. The steps are clear, the wait time is clear, the point system is clear. If you need a lawyer for any of it, it either means that you can’t read or write or that you have a problem in your file, both of them will come back to haunt you. In US reversely, apparently everyone needs to have a lawyer and pay bucket loads of money to them as well.

I may go further and say that those lawyers perhaps have lobbyists that make sure that the process never becomes transparent so that they wouldn’t lose their income source. For this last paragraph, I have no evidence but in this lobbyist country, it’s not an unlikely scenario.

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No, not at all. It is not worth it even to stay for 6 years to get a green card. Which country in the world treat its borrowed talent like this, who are actually building their economy?Whether they are not your citizens, doesn't matter. The fact is, H-1Bs had built this nations IT, Engineering and Medical sector since 1990.

It is a waste of your time, quality of life and always keeps you unstable in life.

Take an example, that you are 35 right now and you will get your green card around the age of 50. Even at the age of 50, you are not a citizen of the country to whom you have given the best years of your life. I have to be brutally honest with you because I am in such a situation right now. Even though my employer had started the process of Green Card for me in the EB2 category, I don't think it's fair enough for my own self respect to accept to wait for 15 years for a card that only lets me stay here permanently, and still doesn't think I am worthy enough of getting the citizenship. Why shouldn't I move to Canada or Europe or even Australia where in about 5 years of time you get the citizenship? The infrastructure, food, salary, quality of education, housing is either at par of US or even better. Just for the tag of - working and living in the #1 country in the world, I can't lose self respect.

If a country doesn't think that I am worthy enough to get the citizenship where I have given all my life and energy, is not worthy enough for me to give such a big time of my life. Sorry, it's not fair and not a proper give and take relationship.

How bizarre is this that people who come here illegally, get the citizenship because they have to brought in the mainstream? But for someone like me who has come here with more than enough share of scrutiny through background checks, educational qualifications, work experience and what not, has to go through a rigorous checks to prove my credibility.

I may not have savings like you to start a business of my own but I have the passion to do it. But, I can't even do that here on the H-1B visa. It is like, I can create so much wealth by my passion through my hobbies in freelancing, by driving a Uber, by renting my apartment on Airbnb and so many more options, but, no, I can't do that because the visa states that you can't earn a single penny apart from what your employer pays you. This is disgusting!

I don't understand the meaning of the H-1B visa. By definition it is a temporary visa. What? Temporary! How can a visa that allows me to stay for 6 years in a country is called a temporary visa. I feel more like a slave than anything else. And on top of that, some people say that since I am on an H-1B visa, I am taking American citizen’s jobs away! What? That automatically undermines my expertise, my knowledge and my hardwork of several years. It also undermines my US based employers capability. Because it means they are being unfair to an American citizen, whose job I have taken away. Even though that employer could be ‘Google’!

Something tells me that these are enough clues to make me move out of here, respectfully.

Edit: I see that my answer has been assumed as abusing the country that gave me the chance to work. That was not the intention. My idea of sharing my views was only to call out people who create these laws of immigration and they are not doing the right job. We all are free to share our views and these were my views on this. My apologies if I had hurt anybody's feelings. Let's be constructive in our arguments instead of throwing abuses. I will have to delete your comment otherwise.

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Who wrote these Employment based Greencard rules and passed in the house. Big Tech companies want slaves to serve their companies for 15 years.  Big Tech companies can spend lot of money for lobbying and make sure H1B candidates do not get their Greencards for 10-15 years. Indian H1B candidates are suffering most. They can easily use un used green cards from other country quota every year and assign those to people who are looking for and waiting for it in long queue. 

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2 hours ago, Merabharathmahan said:

Who wrote these Employment based Greencard rules and passed in the house. Big Tech companies want slaves to serve their companies for 15 years.  Big Tech companies can spend lot of money for lobbying and make sure H1B candidates do not get their Greencards for 10-15 years. Indian H1B candidates are suffering most. They can easily use un used green cards from other country quota every year and assign those to people who are looking for and waiting for it in long queue. 

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