<story><title>Fewer foreign entrepreneurs say they need the U.S.</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2016/09/13/fewer-foreign-entrepreneurs-say-they-need-the-u-s-thats-a-problem/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>calvinbhai</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m really glad US has such tight immigration norms. As someone from India, it is great the see that those innovators who couldn&amp;#x27;t get visas, are innovating outside US and living a much better life. why move be an alien in US, when you can live in home country and innovate?&lt;p&gt;I think the author (also an Indian turned American) has been making this point for quite a few years. Not all, but some of America&amp;#x27;s loss is China and India&amp;#x27;s gain.&lt;p&gt;India and China are so vastly different markets, that most of the products made for US really dont fit outside US. And innovating in China &amp;#x2F; India truly help these countries!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rushabh</author><text>I totally agree. As a company, we lost two of our best engineers who emigrated to the US in the past year. And no, it was not because of the pay or working conditions or no equity. People have been sold the &amp;quot;American Dream&amp;quot; to people outside America over the decades. Young people have seen their relatives from previous generations live much better lives in the US over India.&lt;p&gt;Bringing people back will take time and I think once the infrastructure is fixed (which is very fixable in the next 10-15 years), most people will not think of emigrating. Having lived in the US and India, I think the society in India is as free as in the US, without the anxiety of &amp;quot;fitting in&amp;quot; and leaving your family behind. Also today you have access to the best products, technology and knowledge being in India so other than the physical infrastructure (housing, travel, cleanliness) the gap is much reduced.&lt;p&gt;I sincerely hope the immigration laws get tighter in the US so that we can build great companies, create wealth for the society, create jobs and remove hardship and poverty in India.</text></comment>
<story><title>Fewer foreign entrepreneurs say they need the U.S.</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2016/09/13/fewer-foreign-entrepreneurs-say-they-need-the-u-s-thats-a-problem/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>calvinbhai</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m really glad US has such tight immigration norms. As someone from India, it is great the see that those innovators who couldn&amp;#x27;t get visas, are innovating outside US and living a much better life. why move be an alien in US, when you can live in home country and innovate?&lt;p&gt;I think the author (also an Indian turned American) has been making this point for quite a few years. Not all, but some of America&amp;#x27;s loss is China and India&amp;#x27;s gain.&lt;p&gt;India and China are so vastly different markets, that most of the products made for US really dont fit outside US. And innovating in China &amp;#x2F; India truly help these countries!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kamaal</author><text>Also, Tighter immigration is just one part of the story. India itself has grown up and fixed a lot of its issues. Apart from the current generation, even the generation that saw the first wave of benefits of 1990&amp;#x27;s reforms has already reaped far more benefits than their peers who moved to US around the same time. Most are disproportionately rich, have had better careers and family&amp;#x2F;social circles in India.&lt;p&gt;My guess is as more things get fixed in India(which they will), and more situation improves here, it will be harder by the day to think of restarting your life elsewhere while your peers do better than you back home. At the end nobody wants to end up being worse off than their peers despite doing a lot more of that extra work as immigrant in a foreign land.&lt;p&gt;Now we are in the second generation of this trend. Among my friends who moved to the US for MS and never returned. Most of us in India have done better on nearly every count.&lt;p&gt;Essentially today immigration to a foreign country in India has been reduced to a social status issue.&lt;p&gt;The actual financial reasons have been drying out for a while and very few remain today.</text></comment>