Great article in Slate Magazine about how flawed our immigration policy is against the most qualified applicants:
"The country does not cap the number of "family-based" green cards, available to relatives of U.S. residents. But it does cap the number of "employment-based" green cards—the ones often needed by entrepreneurial super-immigrants—at 140,000 per year."
I've seen this flaw many times over as I've seen numerous immigrant families in which the one successful sibling emigrated to the United States and subsequently sponsored the not-so-successful/educated siblings to come over without any issues getting them here but plenty of adjustment issues once they got here.
The Slate article gets to the heart of what New York Times columnist Tom Friedman always asks about why foreign students upon receiving a Ph.D. from an American university aren't given a green card along with their degree. Personally I wouldn't mind seeing something similar to the Canadian system, which has a separate and distinct category for working professionals wanting to emigrate to Canada.
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