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I mean, people aren't asking for infinite slots for Indians. Hell, they aren't even asking for more slots.

They are asking for one or multiple of :

1. Use of lapsed green cards slots from other categories to be used for pending green cards.

2. Removal/Relaxing of the 7% rule, which uniquely inconveniences Indians. (If the idea is diversity, then in almost every way India is more diverse than arbitrarily formed culturally homogeneous tiny nations around the world.)

3. More humane work permit rules for those who have a PR in the waiting. Eg: relaxing the insane 60 day unemployment rule, reducing need to restamp visa incredibly often, allowing secondary sources of income or starting a startup.

4. More stable processing times and predictions on how long PR waiting time actually are. Current estimates vary from 20-100 years. That is simply unacceptable as a range.

With all this stuff, it sounds like the country is telling you that they don't really want you there. Why do you insist on going someplace where you're not wanted? You're not a citizen, so you don't really have a right to complain about the immigration process. Perhaps look for a country that actually welcomes immigrants?

I would like the country to be straightfaced and say the same. why beat around the bushes and be indirect about it.

Removal/Relaxing of the 7% rule, which uniquely inconveniences Indians. (If the idea is diversity, then in almost every way India is more diverse than arbitrarily formed culturally homogeneous tiny nations around the world.

Everybody loves diversity until it’s not them.

What's the 7% rule?

No country can get more than 7% of the employment or family based green cards.

Ah I see, so if country A has a million people and country B has a billion people then people from country A have a 1000x higher probability of getting a green card? Now I understand the problem.

Yup. Also, that is also just one problem.

USA hands out a million green cards, but only 150k for employment based. For all the talks of immigrants bringing skills, we are really not preferred. They'll hand out 50k "diversity visas" by lottery, but God forbid more than 10k indians come into the country for their skills. And even the skills based visas barely prefer more skilled or in demand immigrants. That's what they call "abuse" by H1B/eb1 but also oppose any wage based or PhD preferring rules. Hypocrites hiding their true racist intentions.

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