US President Donald Trump has proposed to end the visa lottery system in favour of reducing backlogs of highly-skilled workers, a plan which may benefit<\/p>\n
thousands of Indian IT professionals who are currently having several decades of waiting period to get their Green Cards.<\/p>\n
If passed by the Congress and signed into law, such a move is expected to significantly reduce the green card backlogs for highly skilled immigrants from India.<\/p>\n
The Diversity Immigrant Visa Programme, which the Trump administration wants to terminate, awards up to 50,000 individuals per year a visa for a green card,<\/p>\n
which allows permanent residency and is a path to US citizenship.<\/p>\n
Trump has been against diversity visa as he believes that this does not attract the best and the brightest to the US.<\/p>\n
In recent past, several of the home grown terrorists including prime accused of New York terrorist attacks came either on diversity visa or chain migration.<\/p>\n
\u201cEliminate lottery and reallocate the visas to reduce the family-based \u2018backlog\u2019 and high-skilled employment \u2018backlog\u2019,\u201d according to the White House framework<\/p>\n
on immigration reform and border security released by the Trump administration.<\/p>\n
The programme provides green cards for up to 50,000 immigrants each year from countries with low rates of emigration to the US. It is one of the ways that<\/p>\n
green cards are issued under the Immigration and Nationality Act.<\/p>\n
The other significant sources of green cards are for family-sponsored immigrants, employment-based immigrants, refugees and people granted asylum.<\/p>\n
Nationals of countries from which 50,000 or fewer immigrants came to the US over the previous five years combined are eligible for diversity visas.<\/p>\n
Immigrants from any one country may not receive more than seven per cent of diversity visas issued annually.<\/p>\n
Given that there are hundreds and thousands of Indian IT professionals waiting in queue to get their green cards because of the current country quota, the<\/p>\n
relocation of diversity visa numbers to green cards is expected to hugely benefit them.<\/p>\n
Immigrants from 18 countries are not eligible for diversity visa because they sent more than 50,000 immigrants to the US over the previous five years<\/p>\n
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