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0 pointspelemele14y ago0 comments

>Care to explain how multidecade wait times for the two >biggest groups while the rest get visas in a matter of years >is fairness?

To be fair, each country gets quota for working visa based on a size of population. Unfortunately requests for working visa from those two countries outnumber that quota. This is the fact and everybody knows that. So if you are from country with more than one billion people where maybe 100.000+ ask for working visa per year you have to understand that the process can be complicated. And you have to understand as well that getting working visa here is a privilege, not a right.

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cooldeal14y ago

>To be fair, each country gets quota for working visa based on a size of population.

Right now, that's not the case, each country is capped to 7% regardless of the population. Making it proportional to population would be much fairer than the current system.

>And you have to understand as well that getting working visa here is a privilege, not a right.

What a strawman. Maybe you should tell that to Mr. Lee who said the following:

> Hosin “David” Lee, president of the Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association, said the bill would force engineers from South Korea to wait an additional two years in their immigration process to get green cards.

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