Are there any valid reasons as to why you would still want to move to the US?
I love the country. It's beautiful. I like its philosophy. American values resonate close to my values. In the years I lived there I grew to think of it as my home much more than the country I was born in. I could see calling myself American.
When I went there I was received well. I was helped. I made friends. Now I think I can help in return. I would like to contribute, especially in a downturn. I would buy a house, I would create jobs.
Now, I travel a lot (including in US) so I live all over the world. And financially I'd have little to gain in States (no extra income, higher living costs, higher taxation, higher business costs). So it'd be mostly an idealistic gesture, a way for me to participate in building something larger than myself and what I've already built. Something I truly believe in.
But I am not getting myself again in the Kafka's nightmare that US immigration is. Waiting years for some bureaucrat to decide if your life will go on or will be completely changed "just because". No thanks. I'd only consider another country if I'd have a clear, legal and quick path to residency. Otherwise... I'll only be a tourist.
But I'm only quoting what I've read off other HN comments in H1-B threads discussion U.S. immigration policy. I don't know firsthand.
And I'm not big fan of its more socialist government. Just like I'm not big fan of UK's big-bro government, even though UK has (lately) a rather fast and straightforward immigration policy.
But they are the closest to US, from all the countries I visited, so I'll research them both a bit more.
1. Entreprenurs .... You start a business and hire 4-5 FT US employees 2. Investment .... Invest 500K in some Federal designated area.
A Swede will not pay 60k because the US is, for the most part, not that much (if at all) better than Sweden, and most Indians don't have that kind of money.
A month after my GC came through, I quit my job and I'm now burning through my savings trying to get a startup off the ground, pumping money into the economy.