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100,000 green cards to stay unutilised in 2022

100,000 permits to stay unutilised in 2022

NEW DELHI: US tech giants are worried. The USCIS (United States Citizenship and Immigration Providers) is grappling to clear a backlog of permit applications- a great fraction of those from overseas employees of American tech companies.
The hold-up in granting irreversible legal status to these talented high-skilled employees may prompt them to leave US for another country- a loss the business can ill manage in a tight labour market, according to a report on axios.com.
With the await a greencard most likely to encounter years, the concern was likewise echoed by Intel director of labor force policy David Shahoulian.
“That may suggest that we lose on some leading talent as a country,” he stated.
Every year the United States sets aside just 1.40 lakh green cards for employment-based applicants and there is a 7% per country cap. Given the heavy influx of Indians in the United States– majority of them holding an H-1B visa, this limiting policy positions difficulties and has resulted in a massive stockpile for them in the employment- based classification.
According to a current research study done by David J Bier, migration policy analyst at Cato Institute, a Washington headquartered think-tank, the employment based green card backlog for experienced Indians had actually reached 7.19 lakh in September 2021, with an anticipated wait time of 90 years.
The variety of employment-based greencards offered in the last two years have seen a dive, thanks to a drop in applications for family-based visas in 2020. The drop is credited to slow processing due to the pandemic and certain policies of the Trump administration.
Apart from the employment classification, another 226,000 “household choice” green cards are booked for family members of United States citizens and long-term residents. In years when family preference visas stay unutilised, due to low need or processing hold-ups or both, the unused visas are moved to the “employment-based category,” but they lapse unless awarded by the end of the next.
The 280,000 employment-based green cards offered this year is double the typical 140,000- a number frozen considering that 1990. But on the flip-side, 100,000 of these are likely to go awaste. This, in spite of the employment-based applications being among USCIS’s “greatest top priority workloads.” Last year too, 66,500 of the 260,000 available had actually gone waste.
Less than half of Google employees’ permit applications because October 2020 have actually been processed, according to the company’s primary legal officer Kent Walker. He firmly insisted that companies like Google require gifted individuals from all over the world “simply to keep up.”
Intel keeps in mind that approximately 70% of engineering and computer science trainees in master’s and PhD programs in US universities are foreign-born. So, there aren’t enough Americans to fill the company’s high-skilled jobs.
“When workers are going through this procedure, the fear, unpredictability, stress and anxiety and doubt produced by the stockpile in processing is simply brutal,” Microsoft associate general counsel Jack Chen said.
USCIS stated it is making staffing and resource allowances to limit the potential for the visas to go unused. It used more of the visas in the very first half of this fiscal year than it did for the very same time duration last year, it stated.
The tech business noted the uptick in the speed for processing permits, and said they are enthusiastic officials will construct on that momentum.
They are likewise hoping for some federal procedures to relieve high-skilled migration, riding on comprehensive legislation indicated to enhance domestic semiconductor manufacturing.
Published at Thu, 14 Apr 2022 16:44:19 +0000

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