America has a weird uncanny valley of citizenship statuses. For all intents and purposes there are no (+) immigration laws if you're very rich or fairly poor, but if you're comfortably middle class and/or otherwise trying to establish a life here you're in for a Kafkaesque nightmare. Ironically, the political will for imposing that bureaucratic craziness is almost wholly a reaction to the total inefficacy of the system at the lower end of the scale.