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Indian Ambassador Meets Durbin Over A Bill To End Green Card Country Caps
To the glee of Indian green card backlog community, Indian Ambassador to the US, Harshvardhan Shringla, has met Senator Dick Durbin, a key opponent of a bill to end green card country caps. Engaging in a tweet later, Shringla wrote how the skillful Indian professionals bring value to the US economy. He also spoke of how they help fill the STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) shortage, critical for the competitiveness of the American tech industry.
Durbin, a top Democrat, has been blocking the passage of S. 386 or Fairness for High Skilled Immigrant Act that would remove the per-country cap on green cards and allow their issuance on the first-come-first-served basis. According to USCIS data, about 77 percent of nearly 400,000 people waiting in the employment-based green card category are Indians. For
Speaking to the American Bazaar, an emotional Shivani
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