Nov 01, 2024 04:23 PM IST
Elon Musk responded to a post by Aravind Srinivas, the Indian CEO of Perplexity, in which the latter revealed that he has been waiting for a green card.
Billionaire Elon Musk responded to a post by Aravind Srinivas, the Indian CEO of AI company Perplexity, in which the latter revealed that he has been waiting for a green card for the last three years.
Terming the US visa process “an upside down system”, Musk said the rules make it hard for highly talented people to go to the US in a legal manner. He added that Donald Trump and DOGE “will fix this”.
“We have an upside down system that makes it hard for highly talented people to come to America legally, but trivial for criminals to come here illegally. Why is easier to get in illegally as a murderer than legally as a Nobel Laureate? @realDonaldTrump and DOGE will fix this,” Musk said in response to Srinivas’s post on X (formerly Twitter).
With DOGE, Musk was referring to “Department of Government Efficiency”. In August, Trump declared that he would offer the Tesla CEO a cabinet post if he made it to the White House again. Responding to an X user who suggested “DOGE (Department Of Government Efficiency)” as the name for the proposed department, Musk said, “Perfect name.”
Take a look at Elon Musk’s response:
Srinivas said he is yet to get a green card, or the permanent residency card, that permits a non-citizen to live and work in the United States indefinitely.
“I have been waiting for my green card for like the last 3 years. Still haven’t gotten it. People mostly have no idea when they talk about immigration,” he said responding to another Indian-origin user’s post on the general discourse on immigrants in the US.
The Silicon Valley entrepreneur, an IIT-Madras alumnus, worked at Sam Altman’s OpenAI as a research intern when he started out. He also worked at Google and DeepMind as a research intern prior to joining OpenAI as a research scientist. He co-founded Perplexity AI in 2022.
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