Visas Allocation
The 140,000 EB visas were never allocated from 98!
http://www.ced.org/projects/immigration.shtml
Figure 9 shows the rapid growth in total
adjustment backlogs for family, employment,
and refugee classes over the past decade. As
noted below, this backlog grew tenfold during
the 1990s, from 100,000 to over one million, as
agency-wide INS problems mounted. At least
The adjustment backlog accounts in part
for the failure to grant the full complement of
140,000 employment-based visas allowed by law.
For instance, in 1998 only 77,517 of the 140,000
visas were used.82 This shortfall, of course, does
not signify a lack of demand. Cumbersome
regulations and administrative inefficiencies….
The 140,000 EB visas were never allocated from 98!
http://www.ced.org/projects/immigration.shtml
Figure 9 shows the rapid growth in total
adjustment backlogs for family, employment,
and refugee classes over the past decade. As
noted below, this backlog grew tenfold during
the 1990s, from 100,000 to over one million, as
agency-wide INS problems mounted. At least
The adjustment backlog accounts in part
for the failure to grant the full complement of
140,000 employment-based visas allowed by law.
For instance, in 1998 only 77,517 of the 140,000
visas were used.82 This shortfall, of course, does
not signify a lack of demand. Cumbersome
regulations and administrative inefficiencies….