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The current per-country cap on issuing of green cards in the US has resulted in Indian professionals, mostly from the IT sector, having to wait for decades for their legal permanent residency.
An influential immigration advocacy group representing Indian-Americans on Thursday urged the Biden administration not to issue the most sought-after H-1B work visa to any individual born in India, till the time the discriminatory country-cap on green cards or permanent legal residency is removed.
The current per-country cap on issuing of green cards in the US has resulted in Indian professionals, mostly from the IT sector, having to wait for decades for their legal permanent residency. Issuing new H-1B visas to more Indians would add to this agonising painful wait for green cards, Immigration Voice said in a statement.
Read more about Biden admin urged not to issue H-1B to Indians till country cap removed on Business Standard. The current per-country cap on issuing of green cards in the US has resulted in Indian professionals, mostly from the IT sector, having to wait for decades for their legal permanent residency
17 Dec 2020
Indian-origin lobbyists are rallying India’s many visa workers to pressure Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) to remove his China-related amendment from Sen. Mike Lee’s S.386 green card giveaway bill.
“Please act IMMEDIATELY and with utmost URGENCY. We need this email to go out in LARGE numbers & for there to be a LOT of calls,” said a Facebook message from Immigration Voice, a group which has organized a very aggressive series of street protests against GOP and Democratic legislators.
The message also included a veiled threat to restart the harassment of U.S. politicians who do not pressure Scott:
14 Dec 2020
The GOP’s green card giveaway S.386 bill will trigger a massive lobbying campaign for additional green cards, and will threaten the GOP’s declining support among white-collar graduates, say activists on all sides of the debate.
Utah GOP Sen. Mike Lee’s S.386 bill slipped through the Senate on December 2, without any opposition from the 53 GOP Senators or the 47 Democratic Senators.
If the Senate’s S.386 or the HR.1044 version of the bill pushed by Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) is included in the year-end omnibus bill, it would steer most of the annual supply of 140,000 employment green cards and thus, citizenship to the tech industry’s imported workforce of mid-skill Indian H-1B visa workers.
okay, we re back. my next guest writes that immigration reform is not a kaur-all for the republican party. joining me now is aaron blake. we have hookup. that s great. aaron, first of all, is there going to be another failed attempt at immigration reform? overall? well, it s quite possible i will say this time unlike other times, we have con serbive talk show hosts on board, republican rank and file. one of the most interesting things, congressman steve king from iowa, a very, you know a very conservative immigration voice in the republican party said he liked a lot of the things in the senate bill. i think the odds of this getting done are probably better than they were in 2006/2007, when they tried this the last time. why is this not a cure all? a necessary, but not