Washington:
US President Joe Biden believes that it is significant and lengthy overdue to modernise the immigration method, and this incorporates taking actions to assistance assure higher skilled workers can keep in the nation, the White House has mentioned.
Biden has revoked a policy issued by his predecessor throughout the COVID-19 pandemic that blocked a lot of Green Card applicants from getting into the US, a move that will advantage a lot of Indians working in America on the H-1B visa.
A Green Card, recognized officially as a Permanent Resident Card, is a document issued to immigrants to the US as proof that the bearer has been granted the privilege of residing permanently.
“The president believes that it’s important and long overdue to modernise our immigration system, and that includes taking steps to help ensure that high skilled workers can stay in the country and can go through the proper processes to stay in the country,” White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki told reporters at her every day news conference on Thursday.
“So, we are eager to work with Democrats and Republicans in Congress to get that done,” she mentioned a day immediately after Biden issued the proclamation reversing the choice of his predecessor Donald Trump.
Indian IT specialists, most of whom are very skilled and come to the US mostly on the H-1B work visas, are the worst sufferers of the present immigration method which imposes a seven per cent per nation quota on allotment of the coveted Green Card or permanent legal residency.
The H-1B visa, the most sought immediately after amongst Indian IT specialists, is a non-immigrant visa that makes it possible for US businesses to employ foreign workers in specialty occupations that demand theoretical or technical knowledge. The technologies businesses rely on it to employ tens of thousands of personnel each and every year from nations like India and China.
Reopening the nation to folks searching for green cards, or legal permanent residence, Biden in his proclamation on Wednesday mentioned that the policy of former President Donald Trump does not advance the interests of the United States.
“To the contrary, it harms the United States, including by preventing certain family members of United States citizens and lawful permanent residents from joining their families here,” he mentioned.
“It also harms industries in the United States that utilise talent from around the world. And it harms individuals who were selected to receive the opportunity to apply for, and those who have likewise received, immigrant visas through the Fiscal Year 2020 Diversity Visa Lottery,” Biden, a Democrat, mentioned.
Trump, a Republican, issued the ban final year, saying it was required to guard US workers amid higher unemployment due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The US is at present facing a backlog of practically 473,000 certified family members-based Green Card requests.
As a outcome of Trump’s ban on issuing green cards, as a lot of as 120,000 family members-based preference visas had been lost. But this came as a huge boon for issuing employment-based green cards, mostly these on H-1B visas.
Thousands of Indian IT specialists who painstakingly waited for their Green Card, received their legal permanent residency as a outcome in the final handful of months of the Trump administration.
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