The United States administration has admitted the fact that by the end of the year more than 1 Lakh employment-based green cards are at the risk of going to waste. This is of great concern for the IT professional in India as the waiting list goes decades.
According to US Citizenship and Immigration Services or USCIS, more than 1 Lakh cards will go to waste if they are not allotted to immigrants seeking employment in the United States if not issued by 30th September.
"There are hundreds of thousands of gainfully employed legal immigrants in the US who would benefit from these Green Cards. Many of them have been waiting for a decade or more to adjust to permanent resident status but have been unable to do so due to a lack of available visa numbers, But this year, if the USCIS does its job efficiently and promptly, these immigrants finally have the opportunity to become permanent residents, something which would otherwise take decades...Most potential beneficiaries, such as myself, are from India, a country that is the most backlogged due to inherently racist and discriminatory per country quotas embedded in the INA. Many have spouses, mostly women, who are unable to work until they become permanent residents. Without drastic revisions in the glacial processing times, President Biden will have presided over one of the largest cuts to legal immigration in US history — and almost no one is talking about it." said Sandeep Pawar to PTI. he has been fighting for the rights of Indian professionals related to the immigrant visa in the United states.
A group of 125 Asian professional immigrants has signed a petition in opposition to this issue of wastage of green cards.
The White House has made no comment regarding the issue.
