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US immigration reforms: Stop counting family members to mitigate green card backlogs, says Cyrus Mehta, immigration attorney
Lubna Kably | TNN | Updated: May 24, 2021, 15:07 IST
Under the Biden administration, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) invited public comments on improving the legal immigration system. Cyrus D. Mehta, immigration attorney and founder of a law firm headquartered in New York, has given several practical suggestions for reducing the decades long backlogs in the family and employment based green card categories.
Speaking to The Times of India, he said, “In summary, I have proposed - and this is based on my advocacy of over ten years - that the administration stop counting family members. There is a legal basis to do so because of the ambiguity in an Immigration and Nationality Act provision, viz: section 203(d). This will go a long way in reducing the decade long backlogs in the family and employment-based categories.”
An Indian legal dreamer has her say before US House sub-committee on the challenges of ‘ageing out’
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An Indian legal dreamer has her say before US House sub-committee on the challenges of ‘ageing out’
Lubna Kably / TNN / Apr 30, 2021, 01:08 IST
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MUMBAI: An Indian legal dreamer had her say before the US House sub-committee which held a hearing on ‘Why Don’t They Just Get in Line? Barriers to Legal Immigration’.
Pareen Mhatre, a 21-year-old, third-year biomedical engineering student at the University of Iowa, testified and explained the challenges that she faces, in her path towards US citizenship.