10.7 Lakh Indians Awaits US Greencard With 134 Years Wait-Time (image-www.pixabay.com)
The employment based Green Card backlog has reached at an alarming proportion according to a recent study by David J. Bier, associate director of immigration studies at the Cato Institute. Over 10.7 Lakh Indians are awaiting processing in EB1 and EB2 categories (skilled workers), and it is estimated to wait for another 134 years.
4.24 lakhs among the applicants will not receive the Green Card during their lifetime, as per the study report.
In the report, Bier highlighted that, “The fact that Chinese and Indians dominate the backlog is the result of the country caps where Green Cards are not issued proportionally to the number of pending applicants in each country but rather limited arbitrarily at 7% per nation of birth.”
The depended children are given H-4 visas till the age of 21, but if the parents fail to obtain Green card during this interval, the kids will have to take F-1 student visa. The children who lose their H-4 visa are usually referred as “documented dreamers”.
This visa allows them to study in the US, but they are not allowed to work without obtaining an Employment Authorization Document (EAD). There is no guarantee that these children will be able to obtain an F-1 visa, as only a limited number of children manage to get it. Almost 1.3 lakh of them will have to return back home, if visas are not attained, as per the report.
