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Green card quotas are based entirely on your country of birth.

For example, a UK citizen can obtain a green card far, far faster than an Indian citizen. If a UK citizen and Indian citizen on an H1B visa start the Green Card process at the same time, the UK citizen will obtain permanent residency typically in 9-18 months. For the Indian applicant, who applied on same day with same visa and process, it will likely be over 10 years before they have security of permanent residence.

Where you were born is built into the foundations of how the USA allocates Green Cards to many visa holders, regardless of who you are, how much you contribute to the USA or earn etc etc.

There are attempts to fix this too:

> https://www.fwd.us/news/per-country-cap-reform-priority-bill...

[alibarber]

The UK is an interesting example given that it’s, effectively, the only country in Europe that cannot take part in the annual GC lottery. And even then, Northern Ireland is exempt from that.

This has got something to do with the amount of British people who are already in the US, and I expect in the case of your example, that might also have something to do with the number of Indian H1B holders.

[zb1plus]

Exactly, H1B visas should be entirely blind to country of origin since to do otherwise would amount to de facto racism due to the racial demographics of many countries.

[_-david-_]

Nationality and race are not intrinsically linked so I am not sure how that is racism?