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My cousin reminded me the other day that back in the 80s I was introduced by innumerable mums as “attends MIT and has a green card”. Literally that was my entire “biography”.

Edit: seems like thing have diverged since I had to worry about these things: The waiting time for non-Indian green cards is the same btw.

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Not sure what you mean by non-Indian green cards exactly, but just to clarify, the waiting time for EB2/EB3 green cards for those in India is really dramatically behind everywhere else (final action dates are a rough proxy for "waiting time" but actually understate the problem): https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/v...

Because as someone from the EU, why would I go to California? I have been there countless times because of my job and was always happy getting back to Europe (where in most parts no old people fill bags, receptionists do not need to work with broken arms and not a myriad of poor Mexicans are treated like the reenact "Gone with the wind").

I had to suppress a laugh flash whenever an ICE agent wanted hard to find out if I wanted to illegally stay in the country. Why on earth would I?

Thanks, my wife’s wait (she wasn’t from India) was seven years but that was a while ago. I hadn’t realized things were diverging more recently.

For eb2 and eb3 visas, For chinese and mexicans it's similar. For everyone else, no.

I think Filipinos have similar wait times.

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