ht711, I will hereby conclude my participation in the debate about EB visa allocation in US.
It's fairly complex issue and, unfortunately, most arguments are made based on personal or group interests (for example, Indians who would benefit from unlimited EB PR Visas obviously bring arguments in favor of it, and so do Immigration attorneys, because they are the ones to lose fees for not representing all the potential clients that they could represent if every single applicant could apply for a Green Card. On the opposite end of spectrum you have voters and organizations who simply want to restrict all immigration from all countries, no matter what, and they will fight tooth and nail against any proposition to increase quotas, be it for Indians, Chinese or Vietnamese).
What is often lacking is an objective analysis or the bigger picture (and I am not sure it is even possible to generate one, provided those who are in charge of analysing often have emotional investment and personal or group interests which inevitably skew the angles and distort the picture).
Perhaps, if there was a will to apply a higher intelligence to find a solution, it would calculate the overall benefits and harm to National interests , in the short and long term, and would propose the policy changes accordingly. But we all live in imperfect world and , consequently, solutions often are less than perfect.
Notice, I deliberately express my individual opinion on this matter in vague statements. Because, frankly, I admit the limits of my own knowledge of the full complexity of the issue and , under such circumstances, anything I state beyond what I just said would be driven rather by bias or wishful thinking than a fact based analysis. Because, what do I know about overall long term benefits or harms of alocating more than 7% of 140,000 PR Visas to any one Nationality? What do I know about harm of waiting 35 years for EB3 Visa versus harm to a country for accepting over 50% of worldwide quota from just one country? I mean, I can go on and ramble about it endlessly, but what do I really know? I do not specilize in this area, I haven't done extensive studies of this subject, I have not done a lot of things I would have to have done before I could share anything remotely resembling an expert opinion.
So, I will leave it there.
But , for the sake of fairness, let me make this very clear here: if there are immigrants who have or had it hard in US in the last 30 years or so, then one thing can be stated with certainty and it is this: Indians are not the ones in such category.
If anythng, Indians of the past 20-25 years had been (as an immigrant group) the most successful of all first generation immigrants to US, since may be Pilgrims arrived to America. No other group had gone through adaptation process with as little hardship as Indians did since late 1990's. To state otherwise is to misrepresent facts and to paint an inaccurate picture.
This, of course, is aside from a debate about 140,000 worldwide quotas and 7% per country allocation (which, btw, Congress increased for individual countries like India and China on more than one occasion in past decade, and, FYI, some unused visas from higher category do trickle down to India and China in lower category EB visas; so it's not exactly as rigid as you described).
I now conclude my participation in debate of ths particular subject (EB PR Visa allocation), with wishes of all the good to you and other immigrants, from all over the world.
It's fairly complex issue and, unfortunately, most arguments are made based on personal or group interests (for example, Indians who would benefit from unlimited EB PR Visas obviously bring arguments in favor of it, and so do Immigration attorneys, because they are the ones to lose fees for not representing all the potential clients that they could represent if every single applicant could apply for a Green Card. On the opposite end of spectrum you have voters and organizations who simply want to restrict all immigration from all countries, no matter what, and they will fight tooth and nail against any proposition to increase quotas, be it for Indians, Chinese or Vietnamese).
What is often lacking is an objective analysis or the bigger picture (and I am not sure it is even possible to generate one, provided those who are in charge of analysing often have emotional investment and personal or group interests which inevitably skew the angles and distort the picture).
Perhaps, if there was a will to apply a higher intelligence to find a solution, it would calculate the overall benefits and harm to National interests , in the short and long term, and would propose the policy changes accordingly. But we all live in imperfect world and , consequently, solutions often are less than perfect.
Notice, I deliberately express my individual opinion on this matter in vague statements. Because, frankly, I admit the limits of my own knowledge of the full complexity of the issue and , under such circumstances, anything I state beyond what I just said would be driven rather by bias or wishful thinking than a fact based analysis. Because, what do I know about overall long term benefits or harms of alocating more than 7% of 140,000 PR Visas to any one Nationality? What do I know about harm of waiting 35 years for EB3 Visa versus harm to a country for accepting over 50% of worldwide quota from just one country? I mean, I can go on and ramble about it endlessly, but what do I really know? I do not specilize in this area, I haven't done extensive studies of this subject, I have not done a lot of things I would have to have done before I could share anything remotely resembling an expert opinion.
So, I will leave it there.
But , for the sake of fairness, let me make this very clear here: if there are immigrants who have or had it hard in US in the last 30 years or so, then one thing can be stated with certainty and it is this: Indians are not the ones in such category.
If anythng, Indians of the past 20-25 years had been (as an immigrant group) the most successful of all first generation immigrants to US, since may be Pilgrims arrived to America. No other group had gone through adaptation process with as little hardship as Indians did since late 1990's. To state otherwise is to misrepresent facts and to paint an inaccurate picture.
This, of course, is aside from a debate about 140,000 worldwide quotas and 7% per country allocation (which, btw, Congress increased for individual countries like India and China on more than one occasion in past decade, and, FYI, some unused visas from higher category do trickle down to India and China in lower category EB visas; so it's not exactly as rigid as you described).
I now conclude my participation in debate of ths particular subject (EB PR Visa allocation), with wishes of all the good to you and other immigrants, from all over the world.
