It seems I was not the only one who was distinctly un-wowed by the contents of the article.
The ramping up of resources to deal with EB-5 we already knew about.
As I read it, entrepreneurship would be deemed worthy of a NIW under EB2. A job offer was never a pre-requisite for this.
So we can eventually look forward to increased approvals in both EB2-NIW and EB5.
Any increase in EB5 approvals reduces the available spillover.
In EB2-NIW, the proposals seem particularly unfair, given the present situation.
If you happen to be anyone other than IC, then it is a potentially quick route to a GC, but it is additional demand against the allocation and would further reduce available spillover. Potentially, enough demand from EB2-NIW-ROW-M-P could actually use spillover.
For IC, it is still a fairly long wait, by which time the whiff of entrepreneurship may have died. I accept that the changes to the H1B are designed to avoid this, but still. Exempting from numerical limitations would have done the trick, but that needs legislation.
It seems a bit of the cart before the horse.
I will reserve judgement until the details are officially released. The devil is often in the detail. If the requirements to qualify are anything like the proposed EB-6 visa, it won't be that easy. It becomes more like window dressing.
Maybe I have just lost the ability to see the good in proposals.
