US immigration –Proposed Green Card bill can benefit meritorious Indians

A new amendment has been introduced by Representative. Mr. Kevin Yoder in the Security Appropriations Bill of Department of Homeland Security for the year 2019. The amendment which has been dubbed as the Yoder Amendment, aims to do away with the per-country cap for employment-based immigrant visas. While this will be negatively impacting immigrants from country’s such as UK and Canada which send very few immigrants to US, immigrants from countries such as India can actually benefit if this amendment is passed.
The Yoder Amendment proposes to replace the existing immigration policy which allocates visas for US immigration on the basis of country of origin to allocating them on a first come first serve basis. The aim of this move is to cut down to a manageable extent the decades long backlog for Green card processing that many highly skilled immigrants have to go through. Representative Yoder is also one of the strongest advocates for fairness for highly skilled immigrant’s act that aims to reduce the backlogs for skilled immigrants from countries such as India and China
As per the existing law, the U.S. immigration policy has a cap of 120,000 green cards that can be issued to new immigrants out of which a maximum of seven percent can come from one country. This meant that countries having fewer immigrants would have lower processing times while those having higher immigrants would have longer processing times. The new bill if passed is expected to remove the cap completely for employment based green card applicants and increase the cap from 7 to 15 percent for family sponsored green card applicants would lift that per-country cap entirely for employment-based immigrants, and increase the per-country limit for visas for those immigrants’ family members from 7 percent to 15 percent.
If passed, the amendment would definitely bring good cheer the thousands of Indian immigrants who are stuck in the Green card backlog for ten years or more
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