New Delhi: Nearly one lakh employment-based green cards are at risk of being wasted in less than two months, causing discontent among Indian IT professionals, whose search for lawful permanent residency has now stretched for decades.
A green card, also known as a permanent resident card, is a document issued to immigrants as proof that they have been granted the right to reside in the United States permanently.
Indian expert Sandeep Pawar told PTI that this year’s quota for employment-based immigrants is 261,500, much higher than the normal 140,000.
“Unfortunately, under the law, if these visas are not issued by September 30, they are lost forever,” he said as reported by NDTV.
According to him, the current rate of processing by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) indicates that more than 100,000 green cards will be thrown away, a fact confirmed recently by the state official in charge of assessing Visa usage.
Pawar regretted that the additional 100,000 green cards available this year would be wasted if USCIS or the Biden administration did nothing.
Pawar, who has been fighting for the rights of Indian professionals who have been waiting decades for a green card, said, “If USCIS does its job efficiently and promptly, these immigrants will eventually have the opportunity to become permanent residents, something they would otherwise have.” It will take decades”, as noted by NDTV.
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He also highlighted how most of these potential beneficiaries come from India, which has the longest queue due to the INA’s inherently racist and discriminatory per-country quota.
As part of a delegation, IMPACT executive director Neil Makhija called on President Joe Biden to reform immigration rules by eliminating green card restrictions and quotas and including 200,000 children of long-term visa holders in efforts to protect all encouraged.
The US government said last week that it was processing green card applications so slowly that it would run out of at least a million places.
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