@sirus_me - I heard the same thing about the compensation for skilled IT professionals. I've a friend working there as DBA and he told me that the compensation over there is around 50-55k. But, here in US, it's at least 10k or more. However, he told me that it's very good if you're in healthcare industry such as RNs.

@anon - I went over the link that you gave and found out that I've enough points to apply PR. Can this be done individually? Should I follow proper channel to process PR? Can you give us your experience how you yourself processed your PR? Thanks!

Lastly, in my view, it depends on your personal situation than to really pick one country better than the other. If you've a nice/stable job in US and make enough money, you obviouslly don't want to move to Australia or Canada; and vice-versa. Personally, I've applied mine GC under EB3 and will take at least 5 yrs. So, I'm definitely looking for any other backup options.