{"id":54554,"date":"2019-02-09T11:17:15","date_gmt":"2019-02-09T11:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=54554"},"modified":"2019-02-09T11:17:19","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T11:17:19","slug":"move-to-remove-per-country-cap-on-green-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/move-to-remove-per-country-cap-on-green-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Move to remove per-country cap on Green Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Washington<br>\nTwo identical legislations backed by top companies from the Silicon Valley like Google have been introduced in the US House of Representatives and Senate to end the per-country limit on Green Cards and could benefit thousands of Indian professionals waiting to gain permanent legal residency if signed into law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the Senate, Republican Mike Lee and Democratic presidential aspirant Kamala Harris introduced the Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act on Wednesday, a bill that would remove per-country cap for employment-based green cards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If passed by Congress and signed into law, the legislations would benefit thousands of Indian professionals on H-1B visas whose current wait time for permanent legal residency is more than a decade.Having a Green Card allows a person to live and work permanently in the US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to some recent studies, some categories of those Indian professionals face a wait of 151 years under the current system which imposes a country cap on people who get Green Cards.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Two identical legislations backed by top companies from the Silicon Valley like Google have been introduced in the US House of Representatives and Senate to end the per-country limit on Green Cards and could benefit thousands of Indian professionals waiting to gain permanent legal residency if signed into law. In the Senate, Republican Mike [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54555,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54556,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54554\/revisions\/54556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}