[sadok]

I agreee with you. As a mexican with no college degree (I'm entirely self-taught), one of my 'career dreams' is to work at a company like Airbnb, Uber, Google, Facebook, etc, but the lack of work visa, or in this case, US citizenzhip, makes it IMPOSSIBLE for me unless I do some crazy stuff like getting an O-1 visa (extraordinary ability). I was offered a Product Design position at Medium but I couldn't move forward because of the visa. I was very sad.

In contrast, working in Europe or Canada is easier because getting a work or resident visa is smoother, but the salary cut is way too much.

[oddsockmachine]

There's always the L-1B visa option: work for a company that has offices both in the US and somewhere you can already work. After one year, apply to transfer to the US offices.

[taway_1212]

That's unfortunately not comparable to a citizenship. With the L-1 visa you get to work for this one company only - and changing jobs is usually essential to building a good career in tech.

[EduardoBautista]

Same here. Add the fact that I lived in the USA for most of my life undocumented. I now live in Mexico and doing OK.