Green Card: US lawmakers back elimination of per-country limit
At least six influential US lawmakers have supported the move of a group of highly-skilled Indians to remove the per country limit on the allotment of green cards, arguing that the current system was unjust to America, where 1.5 million such people were stuck in the backlog.
They argued that because of the limit on the number of individuals from a country can get the Green Card or legal US residency, the wait period for highly skilled Indians could be as long as 70 years.
A group of over 200 highskilled Indian, from diverse fields like information technology (IT), scientists and academicians, converged at the US Capitol on Monday and visited the offices of the lawmakers, reports PTI.
At least half a dozen of them turned up for a reception later in the evening to extend their support and boost the morale of these highlyskilled Indians, who had come from across the country, including as far as California, which has a strong 30member delegation.
“We want America to have opened its doors open to all people. The idea that we would tell a group of people just because they happened to be from India they can’t ever get a Green Card or ever become a citizen to be as anti-American.
“It is wrong. It just doesn’t happen,” Congressman Kevin Yoder told the Indians gathered at the US Capitol, organised by Immigration Voice.
Because of the limit on the number of individuals from a country can get the Green Card or legal US residency, the wait period for highly skilled Indians could be as long as 70 years