> The US has sent a clear message: "We don't care if you won a Nobel Prize, If you're Indian, you're outta luck."<p>Being an immigrant myself, I'm usually a pretty vocal advocate of immigration reform and a better treatment of immigrants.<p>This sentence is mostly BS, though. EB-1 visas largely benefit executives and managers, a category routinely abused by large IT multinationals because it's so <i>easy</i> to fit pretty much anyone in there.<p>I mean, given the category and the priority, it is not believable that tens of thousands of applicants are world-renowned researchers and/or people with extraordinary abilities.