It's not about foreign relations but how long the queue is.

The current date for India (Employment-based green cards) is most backlogged, followed by China, Mexico, Philippines, and Others (Others being its own category).

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/v...

I saw it first hand. My Indian colleagues mentioned that their queue to transition from H1B to green card is impossibly long. It’s just how the numbers work. There are just too many Indians applicants and not enough seats.

This is presumably about the per-country limits on H1Bs- i.e. most countries aren't hitting their quota, so if you apply for one as a citizen of most countries, the wait is comparatively minimal.

ahhh I misunderstood I thought there was just one global pool for H1B did not realize there were per country limits

What do you mean? My green card application has been pending for 9 years. Based on projections I won’t get it in less than 100 years or so. Indian. This is a well known fact.

my bad I misread I thought this was for the H1B which I read had a fixed quota hope all goes well with your application

does this mean if you change your citizenship to a low population country by paying 100k and then applying it would speed up the process? or does USCIS have some law that prevents that