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Creating jobs for 10 US citizens is a ridiculous requirement. Creating 1-2 jobs would be more reasonable.

Also US residency and citizenship is such not a wonderful asset. I for one would never want citizenship because it means that you now have to pay taxes on your worldwide income, even if you do not live in the US.

So if you earn $1000 per year and you live in a developing country, the right to live in the US is very valuable. If you earn $100k per year or higher the right to live in the US or to get US citizenship becomes a lot less interesting.



Since (1) US taxes are relatively low on high income earners (right now anyway) (2) you can usually use the US taxes you pay as a credit against any foreign taxes you owe, is this actually a big problem in practice? Perhaps if you are making a large income and currently reside in a country with very low taxes, I suppose.




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