The Biden campaign promised reforms in the H1-B visa system and extended its support towards family based immigration to sway the American Indians in the US.
On the occasion of India’s 74th Independence Day, Joe Biden in his election campaign has emphasized on many favorable reforms for the Indian Americans who account for 1.3 million votes.
The Democratic party candidate Joe Biden has promised to reform the H1-b visa system by working towards eliminating the country quota for green cards.
A H1-B visa is a non-immigrant visa which allows the US companies to deploy workers in special operations requiring technical or theoretical experience.
In what will come as major positive change for the American Indians, Joe Biden supported the family based immigration system and also supported streamlining processing for religious worker visas.
Biden promised that his administration would take all the necessary measures to curb the rising tide of hatred and bigotry, eliminate the language barriers in the country and also honour the diversity and the contribution made by the Indian Americans to the country.
This is the first time a democratic Presidential candidate has come with positive reforms for the Indian Americans. There are around 1.3 million Indians in America eligible to vote across 8 battleground states.
Joe Biden will also address the Indian Americans later in a video message very soon.
The idea behind Biden’s family based immigration is to support family unification as a core principle of the immigration system of the US which includes reducing the family visa backlog.
The Biden campaign addressed that the administration would increase the number of visas offered for permanent or work based immigration based on macroeconomic conditions and exempt from any cap recent graduates of Phd programmes in STEM fields.
Joe Biden would first support reforming the temporary visa system for the high skill specialty jobs to ensure protection of wage workers and then he would increase the number of visas offered and eliminate the limits on employment based green cards by the country which have kept so many Indian families waiting for so long.
Biden will restore and support the naturalisation process for green card holders.
A green card allows a non-US citizen to live and work permanently in America.
Joe Biden, if elected, is ready to welcome the refugees by setting the annual refugee admissions to 125,000 and seeking to raise it over time.
Biden’s campaign said that America, the largest immigrant community, knows firsthand the strength and resilience Indian Americans bring to the US but Trump has waged an unending assault on them.
By Gayatri Yellayi
