H-1B Visas And Green Cards Will Become Easier For Indians.

In order to cut the processing time for Green Card applications to just six months, the White House is considering recommendations from a presidential commission. This move could help hundreds of thousands of immigrant families, especially those from China and India, by clearing the backlogs by April 2023.

The President's Advisory Commission on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders released its inaugural report on Friday. The report was approved on May 12 and transmitted to the President on August 24. The White House Domestic Policy Council is currently reviewing its recommendations before they can send to President Joe Biden for his decision.

The report states that because of COVID-19-related closures and staffing limitations and the continued effect of the 2017 travel bans, processing green cards up to the annual cap has been difficult.

It recommends that the Department of State's National Visa Center (NVC) facility should hire additional officers to increase its capacity to process Green Card application interviews by 100% in 3 months from August 2022 and by increasing Green Card applications and visa interviews and adjudicate decisions by 150% by April 2023, and reduce the current backlog by the end of 2023.

Family reunification has been delayed for years due to increased family-based immigration backlogs over the past 3 decades.

The report states that out of the 226,000 green cards available, only 65,452 family-based preference green cards were issued in FY 2021.