While fierce debate rages over the Senate bill of the United States regarding the scraping of limits of per- country green card and the opponents claiming that I would provide the citizens of India with an unfair advantage where as a new report says that the share of the green cards going to the Indian workers has dropped.
Cato Institute has released a report this week according to which it has been observed a rise in the share of green card applications being filed by the employers for the Indians.
It has been observed that the skilled Indian workers have received 10 per cent of the green cards that are available in the EB- 2 and EB- 3 visas which are the two largest green card categories, in the year 2019 and it has decreased from being 14 per cent the year before.
Meanwhile, it has also been observed that the share of applications which are filed for the citizens of India by the employers have jumped from 50 per cent to 53 per cent.
David Bier who is author the of the report and also an analyst of the Cato immigration policy has said that all the applications for the EB- 2 and the EB-3 green cards. He has also reported that hundreds of thousands of the foreign citizens, the vast majority of India are stuck in the green card backlogs and the waiting time can reach decades.
It has been mentioned in the report that the disparity between the proportion of green cards that are allotted to Indians and also the share of the green card applications which are made for the Indians has broadened significantly from the year 2018 to 2019 although it has persisted for years.
According to the federal law, no single nationality would be able to receive more than seven per cent of the total green cards which are issued per year although the percentage can also include the undistributed green cards on a first- come, first- served basis.
The bill to address the green card waits, The Fairness for High- Skilled Immigrants Act, passed the House of Representatives of the United States last fall, but it has tied up in the U.S. Senate in the midst of a bitter dispute over whether or not it would be fair to the citizens belonging to the other countries and the Workers of the United States to start giving the citizens of India a lion’s share of green cards.
