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I didn't know it was easier for people from Australia. I have many Indian and Chinese co workers who have worked for years in the US and still sweat visa issues. It also limits their ability to job hop because immigration status chips away at stability and confidence.

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The green card process wasn't specifically helped by being Australian but more by being from a country that does not submit a lot of green card applications.

There's a rate limiting approach so that countries can not use more than a certain amount of USCIS's application processing bandwidth. Currently China, Mexico, India, Honduras, The Philippines, El Salvador and Guatemala are being "rate limited".

Here are some tables about the backlog for each country in each category: https://travel.state.gov/content/visas/en/law-and-policy/bul...

Thank you. I think a lot of people believe the system is intentionally racist, but if there was a sudden large influx of applications from Australia those folks would face the same issues as Indians and Chinese do right now.

The decision to set a 7% limit per country regardless of the country's population was intentionally meant by the drafters of the 1965 legislation to limit immigration from India and China (the most populous countries then and now).

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