'Priority to Indian Green Card applicants', US lawmakers write to Secretary of State Antony Blinken
A group of US lawmakers has appealed to the Joe Biden administration to take steps to give priority to Indian applicants for green cards. So that the waiting period of up to 195 years can be reduced for these applicants. A bipartisan group of 56 MPs led by MP Raja Krishnamurthy has sent a letter to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in this regard.
A group of US lawmakers has appealed to the Joe Biden administration to take steps to give priority to Indian applicants for the US Green Card. So that the waiting period of up to 195 years can be reduced for these applicants.
A bipartisan group of 56 lawmakers led by MPs Raja Krishnamurthy and Larry Buchshon has sent a letter to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in this regard. In the letter, the US lawmakers also urged the administration to mark as current all dates for filing employment-based visa applications in the employment-based visa bulletin published by the Bureau of Consular Affairs.
Significantly, the Green Card is officially considered as the right of residence in the US on a permanent basis. At present, a limit of seven percent has been set for each country regarding the allocation of green cards. This is creating a lot of trouble for countries like India, where there are more applicants. The situation has become such that the backlog has reached 195 years.
