... but who gambles their whole family on these horrible visas? (Okay, obviously people who don't have better options. Still, very disturbing cautionary tales :/)
>>Okay, obviously people who don't have better options.
As some body who has been through this whole process. Let me tell you people come to the US to work on Visas happen to be the most privileged of the pool.
Simply put, it is a high stakes game of luck, which you are more or less guaranteed to lose eventually. It just makes it very painful when you lose it sooner than you expect.
Immigration itself is a game of luck. People who end up winning really go through multiple level of family, career, health and visa luck situations. Most people get filtered out one phase or the other.
