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Re:I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for... by itissid on Friday October 09, 2020 @01:24PM (#24732208)
On an EB2 people like me have decades of wait time to get my GC.

I think a sustainable way is to have professors and universities collaborate with H1B employees directly, to allow for them to publish papers and get in via the EB1 route. It won't work for every one, but could work for some and improve their situation and free up the Eb2/3 queues.

We already have grants from the industry to universities to do research. Is there something like this out there for immigrants like us?

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Re:I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for... by hardtke on Friday October 09, 2020 @02:42PM (#24733008)
Isn't the long wait due to the arbitrary cap of something like 50K GC/country/year. Seems like Congress should just fix that as part of comprehensive immigration reform.
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Re:I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for... by wobbly_bush on Friday October 09, 2020 @05:34PM (#24734678)
If you are interested to read more, this page talks about the current efforts to fix the cap and the politics surrounding it (reverse chronological order) - https://redbus2us.com/s386-hr1044-green-card-bills-latest-ne...
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Re:I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for... by outworlder on Friday October 09, 2020 @02:57PM (#24733178)
That's the reason for the wait, yes. Even EB3 is current provided you are not originally from two specific countries.
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