I enclose a posting from an Indian website about the new Senate Bill. It states that all post 2005 applicants for green card will have to re apply. Does any one in this forum know anything in this regard.
New Delhi: Green cards are set to become elusive soon.
A new move by the US Congress to legalise over 12
million illegal immigrants, including an estimated
3,00,000 Indians, proposes to restrict the current
family-based immigration system that many
Indian-Americans rely upon to reunite with their
family members.
While the legislation will open the doors for these
Indian Americans to live and work in the US, their
future settlement will depend on their education,
skills and how they benefit the US economy.
This, Indian-American groups claim, threatens to
affect their interests adversely as it moves away from
the family-oriented process, which is currently in
place, and puts the parents, children and siblings of
citizens and green card holders in the firing line.
The US Congress is in the middle of a heated debate on
how to fix the country's broken immigration system.
The Bill is still being debated and it is expected to
take a couple of weeks before it takes a final vote on
it.
But the move has already come under fire from the
South-Asian lobby groups in Washington DC. They say
the Bill is not in the interest of the Indian-American
community as it completely eliminates the green card
option for siblings and adult children of US citizens.
The Bill proposes to cap visas even for the parents of
US citizens. It will also eliminate the Diversity
Lottery Programme, under which US grants 50,000 green
cards on a random basis. The Bill also requires
applicants who filed their petitions after May 2005 to
re-apply, resulting in processing delays. All these
measures could have serious repercussions on the
Indian Americans.
If the Senate approves the Bill, it will then face
another vote in the House of Representatives.
The move has been initiated as part of a move to fix
the country's broken immigration system. The proposed
US immigration reform bill will work towards
legalising an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants
living in US. Most of these immigrants are from the
Latin America, Mexico and the Caribbean countries. The
move is also aimed at protecting local jobs.
New Delhi: Green cards are set to become elusive soon.
A new move by the US Congress to legalise over 12
million illegal immigrants, including an estimated
3,00,000 Indians, proposes to restrict the current
family-based immigration system that many
Indian-Americans rely upon to reunite with their
family members.
While the legislation will open the doors for these
Indian Americans to live and work in the US, their
future settlement will depend on their education,
skills and how they benefit the US economy.
This, Indian-American groups claim, threatens to
affect their interests adversely as it moves away from
the family-oriented process, which is currently in
place, and puts the parents, children and siblings of
citizens and green card holders in the firing line.
The US Congress is in the middle of a heated debate on
how to fix the country's broken immigration system.
The Bill is still being debated and it is expected to
take a couple of weeks before it takes a final vote on
it.
But the move has already come under fire from the
South-Asian lobby groups in Washington DC. They say
the Bill is not in the interest of the Indian-American
community as it completely eliminates the green card
option for siblings and adult children of US citizens.
The Bill proposes to cap visas even for the parents of
US citizens. It will also eliminate the Diversity
Lottery Programme, under which US grants 50,000 green
cards on a random basis. The Bill also requires
applicants who filed their petitions after May 2005 to
re-apply, resulting in processing delays. All these
measures could have serious repercussions on the
Indian Americans.
If the Senate approves the Bill, it will then face
another vote in the House of Representatives.
The move has been initiated as part of a move to fix
the country's broken immigration system. The proposed
US immigration reform bill will work towards
legalising an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants
living in US. Most of these immigrants are from the
Latin America, Mexico and the Caribbean countries. The
move is also aimed at protecting local jobs.