Perplexity AI CEO says “still haven’t gotten” a green card amid immigration debate ahead of U.S. Presidential Election 2024

Aravind Srinivas, the CEO of Perplexity AI said that he’s been waiting for his green card for three years in the U.S. highlighting issues with immigration policy.

Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas says he’s still waiting for his green card amid immigration debate ahead of the US presidential election 2024.

In a reply tweet, the AI startup CEO averred to the long wait time to immigrate to the U.S., saying, “Yep. 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.”

As the U.S. Presidential election 2024 almost here, several Indian immigrants working in the U.S. tech sector have weighed in on the country’s hotly debated immigration policies.

Srinivas’ tweet was in response to a post by Rohit Krishnan, chief technology officer of AI startup, Bodo.ai, who said that very few people actually understand how hard it is to immigrate to the U.S. “I have been an immigrant 3 times now and U.S. was by far the longest and hardest it’s been,” he said.

Srinivas’ tweet garnered a lot of responses from immigrants who were in a similar position as him. 

Matt Turck, a VC at FirstMark Capital said, “Took me 7 years to get mine, 4 of which at one employer I couldn’t leave because I was maxed out on H1Bs.”

Francois Chollet, an AI researcher at Google re-tweeted Krishnan’s tweet calling out the country’s “anti-immigrant immigration policy.”