INDIANS WAIT LONGEST FOR GREEN CARD
GREEN CARD, THE FIRST STEP TO US CITIZENSHIP, HAS BECOME A PIPEDREAM FOR INDIANS DUE TO PER COUNTRY LIMITS.
Indians account for more than three-fourths of those highly-skilled professionals waiting in queue to obtain legal permanent residence status in the US, popularly known as the Green Card, according to latest official figures.
As of May 2018, there were 3,95,025 foreign nationals waiting for the Green Card under the employment-based preference category. Of these 3,06,601 were Indians, according to the latest figures released by US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).
This does not include counts of dependent beneficiaries associated with the approved immigrant petitions, it said.
Under the existing law, no more than seven per cent of the Green Cards may be issued to natives of any one country in a fiscal year. As such Indians have the longest waiting period for the Green Card. IndianAmericans, most of whom are highly skilled and come to the US on H1B work visas, are the worst sufferers of the immigration system which imposes a seven per cent per country quota on allotment of green cards.
3,95,025 FOREIGN nationals waiting for Green Card under the employment-based preference category
OF THESE 3,06,601 were Indians, according to the May 2018 figures released by US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)
THIS DOES not include counts of dependent beneficiaries associated with the approved immigrant petitions.
INDIA IS followed by a distant second China, that currently has 67,031 Chinese
NONE OF the other countries have more than 10,000 people waiting for Green Card.
OTHER COUNTRIES are El Salvador (7,252), Guatemala (6,027), Honduras (5,402), Philippines (1,491), Mexico (700) and Vietnam (521).
7% QUOTA per country quota on allotment of green cards is a troubling Indians mostly UNDER THE existing law, no more than seven per cent of the Green cards may be issued to natives of any one independent country in a fiscal year. AS SUCH Indians have the longest waiting period for Green card