btw, in the 7 years my wife and I worked, we paid roughly $400k in Fed, state, local, and SS tax. That is the $400k used to help the poor, build roads and bridges, etc. We work in the US for a better future and career, and I am sure our hard work also have a positive push to the US. It is just beyond me why the US government and its immigration policy make our lives so hard? Law abiding and hard working is not being rewarded any more?

Because of the hopeless state of immigration application and increasingly better opportunities in China, we are actively looking for jobs back home. Guess it’s time to kiss goodbye our American dream and start our long due Chinese dream.

You can imagine that besides buying a house to get a green card, if every aliens are charged with $10,000 as the non-refundable immigration entry fee, you will see there is a lot of tremendous cash flow into the economy and this may reduce the national debt.

Once they immigrate, they will put extra cash into the banks, buying cars, spending money on household products such as buying computers, televisions etc and you can see more cash flow into banks, uplifting car industry and raising profits in the retail businesses.

In addition, the relatives/friends of these green card holders will be indirectly to be invited to visit US and this will indirectly increase the prosperity of the country. Such visitors will increase the demand in hotels, vacation apartment rentals, shopping in malls, restaurants and these will indirectly create more jobs in sales and uplifting the housing markets. Also, the fees charged from the tourist visa will raise the government income.

Maybe you will argue that such immigrants will definitely take American jobs away and they will hurt the economy. But on the other hand, you need to think about if these green card holders can’t find a job, they must spend their own money to survive in addition with the abovementioned immigration fees flow into the economy. They can’t hurt the economy in any means if the government set rules for these type of green card holders can’t get any social security benefits once they immigrate. Such green card holders will not sit still at home if they are unemployed, they will set up the company and this will indirectly create jobs.

Besides, the new idea of “buy a house, get a green card” is smart to solve both housing crisis and the long waiting lines of employment-based immigration system. Also, I do believe this new idea can replace the
non-nuclear (means the far-related family members such as cousins, nephews and niece) family immigration system but not the nuclear (means spouse and children) family immigration system. It is because this new idea ensures the high quality aliens (rich or knowledgeable quality) to enter the nation but the traditional family-based immigration only emphasizes the family-ties. Most of the non-nuclear family-based immigration members are non-wealthy and not academically adequate.

However, all these aliens must be free of both criminal and illegal stay records and preferably to have good credit score if they have stayed in US for 8-10 years.

This new idea can be tried for several years to see the results in the market.

Me and my spouse came here 9 years ago.Both of us have Masters degree in engineering from a reputed uni in USA. Also we are working in fortune 100 companies in USA. We have two kids both are US citizens. The problem here is we apply for immigration 7 years ago still it is pending because of backlog in immigration policy. We have enough money to buy a decent house in the town where we live. But without greencard we dont have confidence to spend in this country. Here getting green card we are not pulling someones job. We are paying taxes for 8 years. If we get green card,who is loosing here. There are 500,000 people are waiting in this immigration queue,We have job,money ,education,enough experience everything ,but no greencard…..not ready to buy house………..);