Elon Musk responds to Perplexity AI's Indian CEO revealing 3-year wait for green card: 'Upside down system, Trump will fix this'

Aravind Srinivas, the Indian-origin founder and CEO of Perplexity AI—an AI-powered research and conversational search engine based in the US—had recently shared on X his struggle to obtain a green card over the past three years. In response to his revelations, Elon Musk weighed in, validating Srinivas' concerns and declaring that Donald Trump would be the one to resolve these issues.

Rohit Krishnan, Chief Product Officer at Bodo.ai, had recently started an impactful conversation around the immigrant experience in the U.S., sharing that the US immigration process has been the “by far the longest and hardest.”

Responding to Rohit, Srinivas shared his own frustrations: “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.”

Many were stunned by Srinivas’s situation—despite his company, Perplexity AI, reaching a $3 billion valuation in June and contributing significantly to the U.S. economy, he’s still caught in the lengthy green card process.

Now, Elon Musk has joined the conversation on X, calling the U.S. immigration system “upside down.”?

He remarked, “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.” He even went so far as to ask, “Why is easier to get in illegally as a murderer than legally as a Nobel Laureate?”

With the U.S. presidential election on November 5 around the corner, Musk, a vocal supporter of Donald Trump, couldn’t resist bringing Trump into the mix, adding, “Donald Trump & DOGE will fix this.”

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