The current per-state cap on green card issuance in the United States has forced Indian professionals, mostly from the IT sector, to wait decades to obtain legal permanent residency.
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New Delhi:
An influential immigration advocacy group representing Americans Indians Thursday urged the Biden administration not to issue the most sought-after H-1B work visa to anyone born in India, until the state's discriminatory cap on green cards or permanent legal residency has been removed.
The current per-state cap on green card issuance in the United States has forced Indian professionals, mostly from the IT sector, to wait decades to obtain legal permanent residency. Immigration Voice said in a statement that issuing new H-1B visas to more Indians will add to this agonizing wait to get green cards.
The statement came in response to the Biden administration's decision to allow employers of H-1B visa holders to begin registering online for the H1-B visa lottery, starting March 9 this year, for the 2022 fiscal year.
Under this system, more than 60,000 additional Indian citizens will be inadvertently lured to enter the United States this year (and every year) to "enter into a life of slavery in contracts" as their existence and "the entire lives of their families will be subordinated." To the whims of an employer, new administrations, or even individual immigration arbitrators who are having a bad day. "
Immigration Voice membership called on the Biden administration to use its authority under Section 212 (f) of the INA to exclude any new individual born in India and not currently in the United States legally from obtaining a new H-1B visa for the first time. In fiscal year 2022, he said.
“Moreover, Immigration Voice calls for a halt to issuing these new H-1B visas until the discriminatory restrictions on employment-based green cards are finally lifted and immigrants from India are no longer treated as contract servants in the United States,” Kapoor said. .
In the current system, the only people who benefit are unscrupulous employers, recruiters in various industries who benefit greatly from maintaining the status quo, and immigration attorneys who benefit from the ability to process the largest possible number of immigration requests by keeping Indian immigrants tied to a chain Endless renewals of H-1B visa applications with double dipping also keep the green card pool open for people from other countries, he said.
Voice of Immigration is a national not-for-profit organization with more than 130,000 members, they pay taxes, abide by the law, and highly skilled immigrants, and it calls for easing restrictions on employment, travel, and working conditions faced by highly skilled legal immigrants in the United States that work as doctors, researchers, scientists, engineers, and more. Of highly skilled professionals at many US hospitals, universities, and Fortune 500 companies.
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