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United States House Passes Bill
Removing Country Cap on Green Cards
The United States lawmakers recently passed a Green Card bill
aimed at lifting the per-country limits on the employment-
based cards that would in the main benefit thousands of high-
skilled Indian IT professionals, for whom the wait for Green
card is more than a decade.
A Green Card allows a person to live and
work permanently in the United States. can be given a maximum of seven percent of
such visas.
Titled the Fairness of High-Skilled Immigrants
Act, 2019 or HR 1044, the Bill was passed by
the 435-member House by an overwhelming
majority of 365-65 votes. As per the present
system, out of the total number of family-
based immigrant visas to be given by the U.S.
in a particular year, the people of a country The new Bill seeks to increase this seven
percent per-country limit to 15 percent.
Similarly, it also seeks to eliminate the seven
percent per-country cap on employment-
based immigrant visas. In addition, it removes
an offset that reduced the number of visas for
individuals from China.
WWW.WISHESH.NET | AUGUST 2019