Indian professionals seeking U.S. permanent residency through employment-based green cards now face an estimated 179-year wait, according to a report by the National Foundation for American Policy (NFAP).
The report states that the current green card backlog has reached 1.2 million applicants, driven by federal immigration law that caps annual issuance at 140,000, with no more than 7% allocated to any single country. The NFAP report indicates that the statutory limits create extreme disparities based on an applicant’s country of origin.
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