<p>hello,</p>
<p>I was wondering, how hard is it to get US green card, after i finished my study time in collage?</p>
<p>thank you</p>
<p>Very hard - you have to go the H1-B route which has strong competition due to the 65,000 quota. Unless you meet + marry a US citizen in college, but that’s another story. Don’t bank on college being the immediate route to migration.</p>
<p>even if u study law?</p>
<p>well, the thing is my uncle is a US citizens, and he have submitted for our green card in 2000, now it’s approved but i have to wait for about 2 years and I will be finishing my A-leves next year.</p>
<p>The problem is I want to take computer science and there is no decent collage here in dubai for computer science, maybe i will go to canada.</p>
<p>so what do you thinks is it worth dropping the green card or should i wait for it to come?</p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>You can study in the US on a student visa and then go to work in Canada. I would stay on the green card list but just don’t count on getting it fast, they almost never come as quickly as people think they will.</p>
<p>If my goal is to work/live in the US, I will wait for the green card - it’s only a year (gap year?) and then one’s basically free of immigration woes. Canada’s not a bad option though, and immigrating there is much less complicated.</p>
<p>The point is not really what you study but there is a government-imposed quota on the number of foreigners (non GC or citizen) who can get H1-B visas to work and apply for GCs. It’s very competitive and there honestly is no way to guarantee getting to stay (even if you major in compsci and get hired by Google, I read somewhere that they still had ~1/3 of their applications rejected. This is Google we’re talking about.)</p>
<p>I recently attended a dialogue featuring Carlos Gutierrez (former U.S. Secretary of Commerce) who mentioned the Google guy, but Gutierrez got the specifics wrong. Mavinkurve, a Google engineer, got a visa, but his wife couldn’t get one. So Mavinkurve decided to be based in Canada. Anyway, here’s the exact quote about Google.</p>
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<p>If you are going to Canada for CS, might I suggest looking at the University of Waterloo. I say this because if you stay on CC, you might never hear about this school. During his visit to Waterloo in October 2005, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates stated, “Most years, we hire more students out of Waterloo than any university in the world, typically 50 or even more.”</p>
<p>So Waterloo definitely has a good CS and engineering reputation, and you’ll find in the coming future and present that companies like google and Microsoft are moving to Canada because of the less complicated immigration laws.</p>
<p>I’m thinking of McGill to study in Canada</p>