Tag: green cards

MUMBAI: At present, 10.7 lakh Indians are caught up in the employment green-card backlog (EB-2 and EB-3 categories), which will take 134 years to process. Nearly 1.34 lakh children will age out before a green card can be obtained. This, in turn, carries with it a high risk of family separation.Annually the US sets aside only 1.4 lakh green cardsfor employment-based applicants and there is a 7% per country cap.Given the significant influx of skilled Indians in the US – majority of them holding an H-1B visa, this...