Us Green Card Applications

A US presidential advisory commission has unanimously voted to recommend President Joe Biden to process all applications for green cards or permanent residency within six months.

Influential US lawmakers have introduced a bill in Congress to recapture nearly 380,000 unused family and employment-based visas, seeking to reduce a massive Green Card backlog.

US President Joe Biden on Wednesday revoked a proclamation from his predecessor that blocked many green card applicants from entering the United States.

US President Donald Trump has defended his decision to suspend issuing of green cards till the end of the year, saying it was needed to give jobs to Americans.

In a major relief for professionals and immigrants from countries like India, the US government has given a grace period of 60 days to H-1B visa holders and Green Card applicants, who have been served notices for submission of various documents, taking into account the massive novel coronavirus outbreak in America.

U.S. President Donald Trump will outline on Thursday a plan to harden border security and overhaul the legal immigration system to favour applicants who speak English, are well-educated and have job offers, senior administration officials said.

The Trump administration has introduced a set of stringent provisions to the H-1B visa application process under which American employers must disclose the total number of foreigners already employed by them, making it tougher to sponsor fresh foreign workers. The H-1B visa, popular among Indian tech professionals, is a non-immigrant visa that allo...

Out of the over 600,000 Indians waiting for the most sought-after Green Card, only 60,394 have received the legal permanent residency last year which allows them to live and work in the US, according to the latest official figures.

There are a total of 306,400 primary Indian applicants waiting for their US green cards. The existing laws impose per-country-limit of seven per cent of total green cards issued.

In all 306,400 primary Indian applicants are waiting for their US green cards under EB-2 category, meant for the professionals with advanced degrees.

Indians with advanced degrees may have to wait for over 150 years for a green card which authorises them to live and work in the US permanently, according to projections by a think-tank.

The move could directly stop hundreds of thousands of foreign workers from keeping their H-1B visas while their green card applications are pending, claims a report.

Under the EB-5 Investment Visa programme, an applicant receives a conditional green card on making a minimum investment of $5,00,000 in the United States.

Mohandas Pai has come out in strong support of India's IT industry ability to cope with tightened H-1B visa norms by the Trump administration.

China plans to relax its US style "green card" policy by lowering the application and approval threshold in a bid to attract more foreign talent for its high technology industry and institutions.

A US presidential advisory commission has unanimously voted to recommend President Joe Biden to process all applications for green cards or permanent residency within six months.

Influential US lawmakers have introduced a bill in Congress to recapture nearly 380,000 unused family and employment-based visas, seeking to reduce a massive Green Card backlog.

US President Joe Biden on Wednesday revoked a proclamation from his predecessor that blocked many green card applicants from entering the United States.

US President Donald Trump has defended his decision to suspend issuing of green cards till the end of the year, saying it was needed to give jobs to Americans.

In a major relief for professionals and immigrants from countries like India, the US government has given a grace period of 60 days to H-1B visa holders and Green Card applicants, who have been served notices for submission of various documents, taking into account the massive novel coronavirus outbreak in America.

U.S. President Donald Trump will outline on Thursday a plan to harden border security and overhaul the legal immigration system to favour applicants who speak English, are well-educated and have job offers, senior administration officials said.

The Trump administration has introduced a set of stringent provisions to the H-1B visa application process under which American employers must disclose the total number of foreigners already employed by them, making it tougher to sponsor fresh foreign workers. The H-1B visa, popular among Indian tech professionals, is a non-immigrant visa that allo...

Out of the over 600,000 Indians waiting for the most sought-after Green Card, only 60,394 have received the legal permanent residency last year which allows them to live and work in the US, according to the latest official figures.

There are a total of 306,400 primary Indian applicants waiting for their US green cards. The existing laws impose per-country-limit of seven per cent of total green cards issued.

In all 306,400 primary Indian applicants are waiting for their US green cards under EB-2 category, meant for the professionals with advanced degrees.

Indians with advanced degrees may have to wait for over 150 years for a green card which authorises them to live and work in the US permanently, according to projections by a think-tank.

The move could directly stop hundreds of thousands of foreign workers from keeping their H-1B visas while their green card applications are pending, claims a report.

Under the EB-5 Investment Visa programme, an applicant receives a conditional green card on making a minimum investment of $5,00,000 in the United States.

Mohandas Pai has come out in strong support of India's IT industry ability to cope with tightened H-1B visa norms by the Trump administration.

China plans to relax its US style "green card" policy by lowering the application and approval threshold in a bid to attract more foreign talent for its high technology industry and institutions.