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If you have a path to a green card then 5 years is a pretty solid amount of time for most places (not india/china).

If they made it a separate quota for entrepreneurs then you could get most people a green card within that timeline.

Why is China and India the exception here? They keep getting mentioned as an exception in this discussion.

China and India are heavily backlogged due to high demand

https://travel.state.gov/content/visas/en/law-and-policy/bul...

A single country of origin is not allowed to use up more than 7% of the total green card quota. Thus, very populous countries with lots of qualified potential immigrants, and strong incentives to immigrate (e.g. significant quality-of-life difference), are at a disadvantage.

> If you have a path to a green card then 5 years is a pretty solid amount of time for most places (not india/china).

Agreed. However, since you can't self-petition in most cases, it is unclear if you have a path or not.

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