Thousands of unused employment-based Green Cards

Annually, the US issues a certain number of employment-based Green Cards, usually around 140,000. However, each country can use only 7% of available employment-based Green Cards.

It is important to explain that Green Cards grant LPR (Lawful Permanent Resident) status and, speaking specifically about employment-based Green Cards, allow eligible foreign workers to obtain permanent residency after living in the US under a temporary employment permits such as the H-1B visa for highly qualified foreign nationals in sectors like science and technology.

However, since there is a per-country cap of 7% and the number of foreign employees varies from nation to nation, there are highly qualified workers who have to wait years to be able to obtain an employment-based Green Card. This is because there are countries like China or India that have high rates of business immigration to the US and waiting times to apply for an employment-based Green Card are quite high.

Now, what happened in the midst of the health crisis caused by the global Coronavirus pandemic? Well, during the second half of fiscal year 2020 and the first half of fiscal year 2021, business immigration processes were almost completely paused under the Trump administration, and there are currently over 100,000 employment-based Green Cards set to expire on September 30, when fiscal year 2021 ends.

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Advocates: Biden should issue unused employment-based Green Cards

Given that there are hundreds of thousands of highly skilled foreign workers waiting for an opportunity to apply for an employment-based Green Card on a years-long waiting list, several immigrant rights advocates and local companies are urging the Biden administration to issue unused Green Cards.

However, the Biden administration has not stated anything on the matter so far, although it could indeed be an assertive move to reduce the backlog of immigration cases across the US. Advocates state that the per-country cap is a gigantic hurdle for qualified workers, who will lose their chance to become LPRs even though there are more than 100,000 unused employment-based Green Cards.

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