The US House Of Representatives yesterday passed a bill that increases the per-country cap on family-based immigrant visas from 7% of the total number of such visas available that year to 15%, and eliminates the 7% cap for employment-based immigrant visas. It also removes an offset that reduced the number of visas for individuals from China. A Green Card allows a person to live and work permanently in the US and could be of great benefit to highly-skilled Indian IT professionals.<\/p>\n
The bill also establishes transition rules for employment-based visas from FY2020-FY2022, by reserving a percentage of EB-2 (workers with advanced degrees or exceptional ability), EB-3 (skilled and other workers), and EB-5 (investors) visas for individuals not from the two countries with the largest number of recipients of such visas. Of the unreserved visas, not more than 85% shall be allotted to immigrants from any single country.<\/p>\n
The bill titled Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act of 2019 aims to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate the per-country numerical limitation for employment-based immigrants, to increase the per-country numerical limitation for family-sponsored immigrants, and for other purposes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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