Do consider decades of Green Card wait while choosing US B-Schools!!

My background: I’ll start with a quick introduction about myself – I am currently working for a large management consulting firm in the US, earning a comfortable 6 figure salary and absolutely in love with this country. Like most of you all reading this – I went through the B school admissions process about 6 years ago, scored a 740 GMAT and successfully got admitted to a top 20 business school with a substantial (roughly 75%) tuition waiver. That was the best day of my life.

Why this decision is so important: Having been through the B-school admission process, then the B school life, the anxiety/stress of the job search and now a couple of years into my first job, I feel a moral responsibility to highlight the most important (and much underestimated and neglected) consideration (in my opinion) while choosing your b-school. When you choose a business school in another country, you not only choose a school but you choose the country you (most likely) will live for the rest of your life in (or at least a significant portion of your life). When I was applying to B-schools, I was obsessed about the schools in the US. I was told that US is a land of opportunities and other countries like Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Europe do not have opportunities any near compared to the US. Yes that’s very true, but the one thing no one told me (and I so wish I would have known then) is this – the skilled immigration system in the US is totally messed up.

The plight of skilled immigrants in America: Skilled immigrants with advanced degrees (weather you attend MIT or Harvard or Yale and weather you end up working for Mckinsey, BCG, Google or Facebook) currently face anywhere from 20 to 80 years of Green card wait time (per different estimates). This means that for the rest of your life you will be stuck in paperwork and job switch restrictions (by the way if you didn’t know, you don't qualify for about 95% job openings in the US if you don’t have a Green card or US citizenship). Your peers (from different countries or US citizens and Green card holders) will be easily able to change jobs and progress in their careers and you will be unable to make changes, take promotions, start a new company or even join a startup for the risk of being laid off and sent back home. Refer to the information below if you need more to trust me.

Join the Facebook group "SkilledImmigrantsinUS"
Watch the movie/trailer: "for here or to go"
Search for "regulations gov i140 ead rule federal register read comments" on google and read the 20k painful comments of people stuck in backlogs!
Search for 'immigrationgirl' on google and read her post about the true green card wait!

To sum up – I am not building a case against coming to the US. I would just like to ask you to choose your future country wisely. It’s a one-time choice and may get very difficult to make amends later! Feel free to comment or IM me if you need any further information.
Please note: This post is my personal opinion based on my (pre and post) B school journey experience in the US.