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New merit based system to help Indians stuck in decades log green card backlog

House panel blocks green card spill over of family based to employment based visa in October

Suhas Khamgaonkar boarded a flight to India last week, “as her husband died while in line for Green Card,” her attorney tells The American Bazaar.

Since Trump’s election as president, major American technology companies have expanded their operations in Canada.

Federal employees, who were on furlough on Monday, returned to work on Tuesday.

The diversity lottery program was introduced in the House bill in 1990 by Schumer and that helped create the visa program.

Gajjar was later arrested outside his residence in Iselin.

Of the 50,437,278 nonimmigrant entries in 2016, nearly 740,000 overstayed their admission.

OPINION: The H-1B program is widely abused, but blocking foreign workers from coming to work in US is not the solution.

The idea was proposed last summer but faced criticism from different quarters.

Indians constitute 2.1 % of the 80.5 million immigrants who came to the county in the past 174 years.

Proposal may go into effect later this year.

Rule would be in effect till Sep’ 30, 2025.

Nearly 1/5 US residents are immigrants.

USCIS relaxes rules for foreign nurses to work on H-1B visas.

Technicality over an earlier marriage an impediment.

Rejection rates higher than for any other country.

Petition closes on March 26th; needs 100,000 signatures.