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It isn’t just the more populated countries. It is any country with a lot of emigration to the USA proportional to their own population. So India, China, Philippines, Mexico. China is at 4 years, Mexico and the Philippines are at 1.25 year, India is at 14 years.

I agree it’s dumb and we shouldn’t do it that way, but India is a huge outlier under the current system.



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