US to hike H1B visas, merit will count for green cards

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157. That's pretty insulting to a lot of people in a lot of different ways.

Did you miss the part in the OP about proposed changes to green card rules, where having skills requiring education, and getting an H1B would now more likely lead to getting a green card?

People do not get these jobs because it's easy, or just to make a buck and leave. People all over the world are just trying to do what's best for them, and having to temporarily move to another country on a visa is far from easy.

I would love it if the US had an actual first-world standard of living and invested in basic human rights and infrastructure, but it doesn't. If it did, and I could get paid in the US, I would live there, but it doesn't, and I can't, so I don't. Right now, I'm on a contract in Switzerland with an incredibly high standard of living. I've been trying to save some money, because if I can't get another job tied to a visa in Europe, I'll have to go back to the US. I guess you think that's wrong of me, huh? I should just spend all of my pay here and then be fucked when I'm kicked out. I mean, it sure was cheaper last year living in my brother's basement, using a car borrowed from my father, and working overtime at unskilled labour jobs (when I could get them) for $8/hour than actually having free time in Switzerland where everything is far more expensive.

What is someone's country? No, people coming to the US haven't been kicked out of one country, but after they make a life for themselves in the US, they may well be kicked out of their home and their new country.

Also, please stop trying to compare apples to oranges. The education system in India is nothing like that in the US. I'm not saying it's terrible, but higher education, at least until the master's level, is something the US does very well. It must have been about 11 or 12 years ago that I worked at a job with an Indian intern. He was studying at a small college in Michigan to be a chemist. I guess he was just too stupid to know that he could have been living the gravy life back in India where money grows on trees, and the standard of living is so incredibly high.