US State Department has retrogressed the EB-1 dates for Indians by 10 years

> The US has sent a clear message: "We don't care if you won a Nobel Prize, If you're Indian, you're outta luck."

Being an immigrant myself, I'm usually a pretty vocal advocate of immigration reform and a better treatment of immigrants.

This sentence is mostly BS, though. EB-1 visas largely benefit executives and managers, a category routinely abused by large IT multinationals because it's so easy to fit pretty much anyone in there.

I mean, given the category and the priority, it is not believable that tens of thousands of applicants are world-renowned researchers and/or people with extraordinary abilities.

Basically from my limited understanding, there were so many people applying from India, the cutoff date moved back to where there the available visa capacity would be.

How long is visa retrogression?

According to the USCIS, there are some months when more people apply for a visa in a specific category than there are available visas for that month. This is when the cut-off date may move backward. https://www.lawfirm4immigrants.com/what-is-retrogression/#:~....

Can anyone explain the consequences here? I'm not familiar with US immigrant worker policy.

As a US citizen, it is ridiculous that the Federal government is allowed to steal my money (via taxes) to actively kneecap the economy without any kind realistic recourse. Free borders & free markets make a country rich, this kind of nonsense is morally unconscionable and economic suicide.