>>7584616>There aren't that many Ph'ds though the advanced education category is for those highly schooled individuals.There are 2 permanent US visas for “exceptional people”, EB1 and EB2. EB1 is the “professor and researcher” visa, essentially for Nobel laureates and high profile professors and funded researchers. There are 2,000 of them a year... yes 2,000. Then there is EB-2, which is for people with exceptional ability that benefit the US economy. It’s essentially the entrepreneur visa for those who already have shown exceptional abilities but can’t come via EB-1... but still hold at least a master’s degree or a PhD. Those are also 2,000 a year, mostly applied within the US by people already there on temp visas.
So no, a PhD or doctorate is no ticket to the US. There are millions of them and the US is not interested.
The US is one of the easiest countries to get in illegally, probably the easiest Western country to enter illegally, live illrgally and work/study despite an illegal status. The US is also one of the easiest countries to permanently move to based on family relationship (brother, sister, kid, parents, spouse, adoption etc.).
But the US is by far the hardest country to permanently move to with an advanced degree from a top university.
tldr - I studied and worked in the US and went through the visa process and it was shit. In Germany you can emigrate with an engineering bachelor degree in electric engineering from the University of Vladivostok and make 35k gross... it is that easy.
