If my choice is "pay almost nothing, get no retirement" and "pay half your salary, get no retirement" then I'm 100% for the US model. Too bad I don't have that choice.
it's an unwritten rule of HN that you must be able to self-sponsor an EB5 investor's green card. It's just measly $900k.
/s, obviously.
I'm already married, and I don't have an advanced degree (nor I have the need for one). My only options of getting a green card are (ranked from the least to most ridiculous)
- winning in the green card lottery
- finding someone to sponsor me an EB3, which would be very difficult, as I would refuse to accept an H1-B, unless they also immediately file for an EB3 (because on H1-B my wife wouldn't get a work authorization, but with EB3 she also gets an EB3 as dependent spouse)
- coughing up $900k for EB5
- divorcing and marrying a US citizen (or LPR)
- doing something that would get me persecuted in my home country but what was perfectly legal in the US, and applying for asylum in the US
none of these options are feasible. I do play the green card lottery every year though.
