I'm a Taiwanese and it seems it's difficult to immigrate to the USA nowadays, as the demand of CS enigneers are decreasing rapidly. I'm in fact considering I should persue medical school, and go apply for resident doctor in the USA, it has higher success probabilty than immigrating as a CS engineer. But I'm not sure if it's worth 5 years additional of working on medicine in order to secure my Permanent residency in the USA.

However, it seems it's difficult to make impact to reducing AI risks outside of the USA/UK. All of the frontier AI companies and EA organzations(like CLR, MIRI) are mostly in the USA(or the UK), and it's hard to get a remote job opportunity. Therefore, there's a case that even if I have to work 5 years more on irrelevant stuff, it's still worth it. Since maybe getting the residency in the USA can make your impact multipy by 3x, even 10x, but I'm unsure and I'm open for any critique. How do you think?