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Re:How I secured an 'Extraordinary Ability' visa as a founder by hasty_pudding on Friday January 26, 2024 @01:51PM (#39146393)
Is the immigration system broken?

Or are there just billions of Indian and Asian people?

Re:How I secured an 'Extraordinary Ability' visa as a founder by j7ake on Friday January 26, 2024 @03:28PM (#39147814)
There are 750 million Europeans , and maybe 4.5 billion Asians (6 times more in Asia than Europe).

But the wait and difficulty is much more than 6 times if you’re Asian versus if you’re European.

Re:How I secured an 'Extraordinary Ability' visa as a founder by tristor on Friday January 26, 2024 @04:06PM (#39148360)
Do you think that might have to do with relative demand, because most Asians would prefer to emigrate elsewhere, and most Europeans would not? If you combine with that the relative population differences, it creates a striking demand curve.
Re:How I secured an 'Extraordinary Ability' visa as a founder by toast0 on Friday January 26, 2024 @09:31PM (#39151818)
Relative demand is a factor. But a larger factor is that many of the immigration categories that are numerically limited have the same limit for all countries, and India and China have a lot larger population than any of the many countries in Europe.
Re:How I secured an 'Extraordinary Ability' visa as a founder by paxys on Friday January 26, 2024 @04:15PM (#39148509)
Now run the same numbers but looking at just visa applications instead of the entire population of these regions.
Re:How I secured an 'Extraordinary Ability' visa as a founder by hasty_pudding on Friday January 26, 2024 @05:11PM (#39149336)
immigration should be on a country by country basis, not on a population basis.

so if your country has tons of people (for whatever reason), that's kind of your country's fault and not the immigration systems fault.

while there are benefits to a culture of having 12 kids theres also negatives.

Europeans seem to have moderate family sizes for some reason.

why is that?

Re:How I secured an 'Extraordinary Ability' visa as a founder by hasty_pudding on Saturday January 27, 2024 @12:41AM (#39152932)
Its a mystery why I was downvoted
Re:How I secured an 'Extraordinary Ability' visa as a founder by AlexeyBelov on Saturday January 27, 2024 @05:16AM (#39154283)
No, you know why you were downvoted, a suspiciosly fresh account. What happened to the previous account I wonder?