Goodness, a very long time, 8-10 years.

suryacom · on Dec 19, 2017

Current priority date for EB-3 India is 2006. For it to clear all the 2007 priority date applications, it will take another 14 years [1].

Since my priority date is today, 12/19/2017, why do you think my wait time is only between 8-10 years?

Or, did you mean 810 years?

[1] https://www.cato.org/blog/no-one-knows-how-long-legal-immigr...

proberts · on Dec 19, 2017

There is an ebb and flow in the progression of priority dates but yes, the process could take longer than 10 years.

suryacom · on Dec 19, 2017

I see. So, will the "ebb and flow", bring down my wait time from 800 years to 300 years?

canttestthis · on Dec 20, 2017

Why ask a question if you don't want to hear the answer?

suryacom · on Dec 20, 2017

Because he is lying when he said the wait time is only 8-10 years. It is actually more than 100 years.

But, no immigration attorney will ever say that truth to the H1B visa holders from India. I had asked this exact same question to my company attorney 10 years ago and the answer was exact same, wait for 5-10 years.

There are around ~70k software engineer coming to US from India, and everyone of them is told the same lie by their attorneys.

While most of these folks from India wait for their green card for rest of their life, attorneys make a fortune renewing their H1B every year.