Thousands of Indian-Americans to benefit from latest US move on Green Card
According to him, the initiative "Recapture Unused Green Cards and Prevent Future Green Card Waste" seeks to alleviate bureaucratic delays in the Green Card application procedure and offer assistance to people holding up backlogs.
Congress has given the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) permission to award a set number of family- and employment-based immigration visas each year. He stated that due to administrative delays, the number of available green cards was not fully utilized, which resulted in a buildup of unused green cards over time. Bhutoria put out two important strategies to address this.
Second, even if the appropriate documentation cannot be processed in that fiscal year, the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security should establish a new policy to ensure that all green cards, up to the yearly limit, are still accessible to qualified immigrants. The new policy should be implemented retrospectively to reclaim any unused green cards.
Furthermore, temporary employees on H-1B visas are limited in their movement and able to contribute less to the US economy due to the lack of a Green Card. When they turn 21, the children of these temporary employees run the possibility of losing their immigration status, he warned.
He said that his suggestion is consistent with measures put forth in the 117th congress to recover green cards that US Citizenship and Immigration services (USCIS) had previously refused to grant as a result of procedural mistakes.
He stated that by reclaiming these useless green cards, the economy might gain billions of dollars, the queue of families waiting for green cards could be shortened, and pointless administrative restrictions on legal immigration could be lessened.