text: why are work visas for the us so hard to get for western european workers? as a highly skilled software engineer i have considered working in the us. however visa restrictions prevent me from travelling to look for a job unless i go on my 90 day visitors visa and if i get a job offered it takes the state department ages to process the paperwork. i am a degree educated uk anglo saxon citizen with family and children and not likely to have links to al qaeda and yet it appears that visas are granted easily to indian subcontinent workers and south east asians. why does america treat its closest allies so bad and why can't they fast track visa applicaions for western europeans ? first i'd like to say, i wish more people like you would come here.  because the us is obsessed with competiting with poverty stricken countries.  the less education and job training you have, the lower wage you're willing to take, the better chance you have of coming here.  my husband has a bachelor's degree and had to take a 12 thousand dollar a year cut in pay to keep his job.  the value of our home went down several thousand dollars within one year.  utilites, other necessities and taxes all went up.  45 years of hard work down the drain all in the name of competition.  our government is working hard to bring in uneducated poor people to work at sub level wages, the goal being to bring our wages to the level of china, india and mexico.  unfortunately, so far so good, we're looking more like mexico everyday.    we're headed for socialism.  our american dream is turning into a nightmare.