Kasz216 said:
Actualy I know plenty about it... and you'd be wrong. Plenty of nonskilled people get in. It's actually the majority. Thanks to family member visas. Also, it's not really that it takes long to get the legal work via a visa. It's that so few visas are given out BECAUSE of illegal immigration. An interesting note is there are 11 million illegal aliens in this country.... and 10 million people who apply for the diversity green card. Think how many more of those people could of came here if we had proper legal controls. |
For you to get the family member visa someone in your family first has to get a work visa.
It took me 6 years to get my green card so nope it's not cheap or fast...( didn't cost me a dime because the company paid all but they have an attorney firm working just on visa for employees).
50% of the people I work with were not born in the US either and took forever to get their green card too.
Getting an L1 is fast but you can only work for the company it ties you too.
There are plenty of requirement that make it almost impossible to get a work visa for an unskilled worker aside from marrying a US citizen or getting a family visa ( and once again to get that someone in your family has to be legal and in the US for that to work). Like you have to post a job offering similar to what the person would be getting and demonstrate that you could not find anyone currently legal in the US to fill the spot...