Image Source : AP The present per-country cap on issuing of inexperienced playing cards within the US has resulted in Indian professionals, principally from the IT sector, having to attend for many years for his or her authorized everlasting residency.
An influential immigration advocacy group representing Indian-Americans on Thursday urged the Biden administration to not difficulty essentially the most sought-after H-1B work visa to any particular person born in India, until the time the discriminatory country-cap on inexperienced playing cards or everlasting authorized residency is eliminated.
The present per-country cap on issuing of inexperienced playing cards within the US has resulted in Indian professionals, principally from the IT sector, having to attend for many years for his or her authorized everlasting residency. Issuing new H-1B visas to extra Indians would add to this agonising painful anticipate inexperienced playing cards, Immigration Voice stated in an announcement.
The assertion got here in response to the Biden administration’s resolution to permit employers of H-1B visa holders to start registration on-line for the H1-B Visa lottery, beginning March ninth this 12 months, for the fiscal 12 months 2022.
Under the system, over 60,000 further Indian nationals will unwittingly be lured to enter the United States this 12 months (and yearly) to “engage in a life of indentured servitude” the place their very existence and the “lives of their families will be completely subject to the whims of their employer, new administrations, or even individual immigration adjudicators having a bad day,” stated Aman Kapoor, president of Immigration Voice.
The membership of Immigration Voice known as on the Biden administration to make use of its authority beneath INA Section 212(f) to exclude any new particular person born in India who are usually not at the moment within the United States legally from acquiring a brand new H-1B visa for the primary time in Fiscal Year 2022, he stated.
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“Moreover, Immigration Voice calls to stop issuing such new H-1B visas until the discriminatory per county limits on Employment-Based green cards are finally lifted and immigrants from India are no longer treated as indentured servants in the United States,” Kapoor stated.
In the present system, the one individuals who profit are unscrupulous employers, staffing corporations throughout numerous industries who revenue enormously from sustaining the established order, and immigration legal professionals who revenue from with the ability to course of the utmost variety of immigration functions attainable by preserving Indian immigrants tied to an limitless line of renewals of H-1B visa functions whereas additionally double-dipping to maintain the Green Card pool open for folks from different nations, he stated.
Immigration Voice is a nationwide non-profit organisation with over 130,000 members, who’re taxpaying, law-abiding, high-skilled immigrants, that advocates for the alleviation of restrictions on employment, journey, and dealing situations confronted by authorized high-skilled immigrants within the US working as docs, researchers, scientists, engineers, and different high-skilled professionals at a lot of America’s hospitals, universities and Fortune 500 corporations.
As mandated by the Congress, every year, the US points 85,000 new H-1B visas. Of these, roughly 70 per cent of these new visas (or almost 60,000 visas) are issued to staff from India, Immigration Voice stated.
“At the same time, discriminatory per-country limits established during the time of segregation, restrict Indian nationals to receive only 8,400 of the 120,000 employment based green cards available each year,” Kapoor stated.
The non-partisan Congressional Research Service says that this “discriminatory and arbitrary” cap on the variety of Indian nationals who can obtain lawful everlasting residency every year has created a backlog of over a million folks ready for inexperienced playing cards, with a wait time of over 195 years, he stated, including that in fiscal 12 months 2030, the road is anticipated to develop to 436 years.
“A majority of the Green Card backlog consists of women and children, who will eventually die in these backlogs. Needless to say, the per-country limits on the employment-based green card system are, in fact, 100 per cent, an ‘Indian Exclusion Act’. In reality, this implies a de facto ban on employment-based green cards for any new Indian national entering the United States on an H-1B visa,” Kapoor stated.
“It signifies that if Vice-President Kamala Harris’ mom had come to the United States right this moment, beneath such a system, she would by no means have gotten a Green Card in her lifetime.
The course of Shyamala Gopalan’s daughter’s life would have been solely completely different if she had been preoccupied together with her mom’s attainable deportation, versus dwelling her life as an American,” Kapoor stated.
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