Every year, about 1 million foreigners become legal permanent residents of the United States. Of that figure, 3/4 of them are done through family repatriation (which is how I got here). 1/5 of them have tons of money or special skills and 5% of them were simply lucky (quite literally. The US government awards 50,000 green cards by random lottery, no joke).

I would like to increase that figure to anywhere from 2–3 million, with about half of that figure comprising of family repatriation LPRs and the rest of them populated by extremely talented foreigners such as yourself and ambitious hard working unskilled laborers.

You’re absolutely right that the process for becoming a naturalized citizen is extremely slow and inefficient. It shouldn’t require a lawyer to expedite the process. But I’m glad your immigration story will have a happy ending!