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by anmol 5119 days ago
Great points, except that the E2 visas ONLY apply to treaty countries, which excludes India and China.

Ironically, I + C are the biggest source of skilled tech labor, as evidenced by the 5+ year EB2/EB3 waiting period.

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I am not saying that it will work for everyone as it did for me, and I know how fortunate I was. But I do know the system really well enough to get through the process. I actually come from a country where it is extremely hard to obtain a US visa from and so going through the process was not as easy as my first comment had made it seem.

As far as skilled tech labor goes, that is more of an H-1B cap issue, which the US should increase. Ironically, in 2007-08 when they were about to increase it, the great recession hit and not enough people applied to it. As such, they never got around to increasing it to the substantial number that they should

my point was I know tons of I+C engineers waiting for 5+ years for their GC via EB2 or EB3, so that they can eventually do a startup.