How Are H-1B Holders Affected by the U.S. Green Card Application Flip Flop?

Re:How Are H-1B Holders Affected by the U.S. Green Card Appl... by thephyber on Wednesday October 07, 2015 @03:12AM (#10344631)

> since it was designed for diversity

Not diversity. US immigration laws have never been designed for diversity. The history of US immigration law is littered with incidents of xenophobic immigration laws targeted at Chinese, Japanese, Irish, as well as East and South Europeans.

Usually the argument for capping or blacklisting immigration from specific nations relates to low observed assimilation rates among immigrants. I suspect that's mostly why most Mexican immigrants to the US use their family contacts in the US to get their immigration requests processed.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_laws_concerning_imm...

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Re:How Are H-1B Holders Affected by the U.S. Green Card Appl... by ashwinaj on Wednesday October 07, 2015 @11:34AM (#10346601)

I didn't mean designed for diversity historically (say before the civil rights act) And by the way, there are limits to family based visas that you are alluding to. The wait time for a Mexican national to get a green card is a lot lesser than India or China (employment based)

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