The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has provided a data which says that almost half of the employer- sponsored green cards which have been issued in the fiscal year 2019 were received by the people with nationalities of India and also there had been a sharp increase in the number of applicants whose files have been kept pending.
The approval of the green cards have been done by the United States to around 56,608 Indians out of the 64,906 Indians who have applied for the permanent residency during the reporting year through the month of September in the year 2019.
It has been said that around 1,352 applications have been rejected where as another 6,946 cases have remained undecided by the end of the month of September.
The number of the applications that have been filed by the Indians were said to be equivalent to the annual quota of H-1B visas. The H-1B visas are the visas that are given for the individuals with the Bachelor degree by the United States.
Around 1,48,415 applications for the employer- sponsored green cards have been received by the agency during the year and it has also been said that the Indian nationals have been followed by China with the number of the applications for the employer- sponsored green card being 220,481 applications. Around 1,15,458 green cards have been issued by the United States during the period.
However, no information regarding the increased number of applications have been provided. The the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services has not provided any explanation for the high number of pending cases which sharply rose from 239 of the Indian nationals in the previous year.
Rajiv S Khanna who is the managing attorney at the immigration law firm Immigration.com has said that,“In lawsuits we have filed, we have alleged that we see a drastic rate in slowdown in the rate of adjudication, which could be indicative of a concerned policy to slow down applications creating an invisible wall against legal immigration,”
An employer submits the I- 140 immigrant petition for the alien worker in order to get the permanent residency for the individual applying for it. The process is generally done in the cases where in the worker is said to be considered as either to have extraordinary skills or talent or if there exists no workers that are qualified for the position in the United States.
The I-140 immigrant petition is said to be different when compared to the green cards that have been received under other categories where in the application would be filed by the beneficiary himself.
It has been observed that almost half the employer- sponsored green cards have been received by the Indians barring the fiscal year of 2018. The fiscal year 2018 has witnessed a drop in their share to about 45 per cent.
The data that has been provided by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services for the past decade says that the number of employer- sponsored green cards has significantly risen from the applications being around 57,040 in the year 2009 and the number of Indian applicants has steadily increased from the number being 15,060 in the year 2009 to 64,906 in the fiscal year of 2019.
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