An interesting exercise put together by noted liberals at the Cato Institute to simulate the experience of trying to navigate the US immigration system in order to immigrate to a country that needs younger workers. The ease of navigating this system truly shows how open the borders are and doesn't at all demonstrate why people might decide to take pathways that aren't "legal." Almost as if this type of system might result in people like Elon Musk and Melania Trump becoming illegal immigrants. The Green Card Game - See If You Can Find Your Path to Citizenship
Would be a more interesting game if it didn’t seemingly get stuck in a loop. I went down an employer sponsored path, but stopped playing after the eighth instance of “you’re eligible and your employer is willing to sponsor you but your boss said your paperwork has been lost.” I get that it wants to be realistic that the immigration process is a pain in the ass, but the odds that what makes it a pain is my boss losing my paperwork 8 times in a row seem pretty low…
I suspect the challenge is that I did the “create your own profile” path and created someone with characteristics that would actually have a reasonable chance of getting a work visa (a married mid-30s lawyer from Italy moving to the U.S. to work for the same employer he worked for overseas), and it doesn’t want the result to be your first try gets a work visa, so it stuck me in some nonsense “you’re unsuccessful for a reason having nothing to do with the immigration system” loop.
I think it made the right choice. Now, if you were a single and attractive female lawyer from Italy, we'd need to fast-track you.
To be fair, I kept getting the government losing the documents, which seems reasonable (I tried one of the other buttons that didn't have words on it and that seemed to bypass that response).
