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Prez panel discusses EADs for those waiting for green card for over 5 yrs

A presidential advisory commission has discussed the possibility of issuing employment authorisation cards in early stages of green card application, a move if approved by the Biden administration would end the agonising wait for a green card. The recommendation proposes that the Department of Homeland Security's US Citizenship and Immigration Services (DHS-USCIS) grant employment authorisation documents (EADs) and travel documents to individuals who have approved I-140 employment-based visa petitions in the EB-1, EB-2, EB-3 categories, and who have been waiting in the visa backlog for five or more years regardless of whether they have filed applications for adjustment of status. Members of the President's Advisory Commissioner for Asian American Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander commission on Tuesday held a detailed discussion on the proposal moved by eminent Indian-American and its member Ajay Jain Bhutoria, who in his presentation highlighted the challenges faced by H1B visa ..

Google pauses green card applications from employees amid layoffs

Amid the layoffs come another bad news for employees, especially from India in the US, as Google has paused its Program Electronic Review Management (PERM) program

Indian applicants will likely have to wait longer for the US green card

A total of 369,322 applicants, who have approved employment visa petitions, are awaiting visa availability under the EB2 and EB3 categories

Bill introduced to utilise 380,000 unused family & employment-based visas

The Jumpstart Our Legal Immigration System Act, proposes to recapture about 222,000 unused family-sponsored visas and about 157,000 employment-based visas

Biden wants to address delays in Green Card processing system: White House

US President Joe Biden wants to address the delays in the Green Card processing system, the White House has said. The inordinate delay in the procession of hundreds and thousands of talented Indian technology professionals, at times running into several decades, is one of the major issues of concern among the Indian-Americans and their dependent children living here. "The president absolutely wants to address the delays in the green card processing system as well," White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki told reporters at her daily news conference on Friday. She was responding to a question on the waste of some 80,000 unused employment-based Green Card numbers, which is officially called Legal Permanent Residency on October 1, as the US Citizenship and Immigration Services are unable to allocate them to several millions waiting in line for green card. Indian technology professionals, for thousands of whom the wait is running into decades, had urged the Biden Administration and the US

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US SC rules against temporary immigrants seeking green cards

US Supreme Court ruled that immigrants who entered the country unlawfully and were later allowed temporary status for humanitarian reasons will not be eligible to apply for green cards

Bill to remove per country cap on Green Card introduced in US Congress

A bipartisan legislation has been introduced in the US House of Representatives to eliminate the per country cap on employment-based Green Card

US judge blocks Donald Trump's key immigration rule on public benefits

A federal judge in Chicago struck down a key immigration rule that would deny green cards to immigrants who use food stamps or other public benefits, a blow to Trump on the eve of the election

Backlog on deciding US Green Cards for Indians runs into 195 years: Senator

In fiscal year 2019, Indian nationals received 9,008 category 1 (EB1), 2,908 category 2 (EB2), and 5,083 category 3 (EB3) Green Cards. EB1-3 are different categories of employment-based Green Cards

Trump urged to suspend H1B, other visas after 26 mn Americans lose jobs

The letter, dated April 23, was released to the media on Friday, a day after Trump issued an executive order that suspended issuing of new Green Cards for the next 90 days

Coronavirus outbreak: Trump halts issue new green cards for 60 days

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Indians may have to wait decades as US green card backlog to double by 2030

A Green Card allows a non-US citizen to live and work permanently in America

Immigrant body urges Trump to address long sufferings of H-1B visa holders

The H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa that allows US companies to employ foreign workers in speciality occupations that require theoretical or technical expertise

Retail tycoon Yusuff Ali becomes first Indian to receive Saudi Green Card

Yusuff Ali, 64, is the chairman of the LuLu Group, who was ranked the richest expat in the UAE by the Forbes magazine last year

US may soon start denying Green Cards to immigrants seeking public benefits

The move might affect a number of Indians who are on H-1B visas and are in long ques to get permanent legal residency

More than 227,000 Indians waiting for family-sponsored Green Card: Report

Majority of those in the family-sponsored Green Card waiting list are siblings of US citizens

No relief for aged-out kids in US: F-1 visa, deportation their only option

In US, once the children of H-1B work visa holders turn 21, they can no longer continue with their H-4 visas, which are typically meant for dependents

US raises threshold investment level for EB5 visa from $1 to $1.8 million

Under the new rules, individuals need to invest $900,000 in a Targeted Employment Area, as against $500,000 earlier