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   Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 20-May-2026 07:01:07 JST Adrianna Tan

   The no 1 thing to fix in US immigration is the country caps.

   Because of racism, people born in India and China etc face years long waits (ranging from a couple of years to hundreds of years)

   All of the applicants born in big countries have to compete for the same no of green cards as people from small countries

   This is the specific mechanism that companies use to trap H-1B workers in subservience, not the H-1B program itself. There is little to no easy path to permanent residency because of the country caps.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 20-May-2026 07:01:31 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Dan Sugalski

     @wordshaper yeah remember the time an entire ethnic group was legally prevented from moving to the U.S. for a long time (Chinese exclusion act)

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     Dan Sugalski (wordshaper@weatherishappening.network)'s status on Wednesday, 20-May-2026 07:01:32 JST Dan Sugalski

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     @skinnylatte the US immigration system has always seemed like an uneasy compromise between the rabid racists and the genteel racists.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 20-May-2026 09:08:06 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Sophie Schmieg
     • Rebeca

     @rebe_gc @sophieschmieg I didn’t need labor certification in both paths I went for, but I didn’t have my shit together until a few years later

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     Rebeca (rebe_gc@beach.city)'s status on Wednesday, 20-May-2026 09:08:08 JST Rebeca

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     • Sophie Schmieg

     @sophieschmieg @skinnylatte a year! For me, just the labor certification step took longer!

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     Sophie Schmieg (sophieschmieg@infosec.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 20-May-2026 09:08:09 JST Sophie Schmieg

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     @skinnylatte Jupp, I entered the US on an L visa, which has even worse conditions than the H1B.
     But Germany is a country that has no wait time, so I converted to a Greencard within a year.

     The exploitation is only possible because people do not have a path to permanent residence and citizenship, and the number one blocker for that is racist quotas.