Green Card : Biden’s US Citizenship Bill in Senate | US Immigration News
American President Joe Biden is expected to present his US Citizenship Bill in the US Senate on Thursday, but it will be a long process to get the Bill approved, said immigration watchers. The Bill aims to increase the overall quota for employment based green cards from 140,000 to 170, 000 annually, a move that would be beneficial to Indians in the US. Indians face the longest wait times for a green card on account of annual country caps. It also proposes adding the unused quota of 225,000 green Card to those available, which would help reduce the backlog a bit. There are about 800,000 Indians in line for an employment based green card, the wait times for which run into decades.

In other provisions which would be beneficial to Indian professionals in the US, it proposes providing employment authorisation for spouses and children of H-1B visa holders and not having children age out while the petitions are pending. Immigration attorneys said that the final contours of the Bill, if it ..

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