US Green Card: Over 2 lakh Indians waiting for legal permanent residency

More than 2,27,000 Indians are sitting tight in line for family-supported Green Card or lawful lasting residency, as indicated by a piece of most recent authority information.

Right now, around 4,000,000 individuals are hanging tight in line for family-supported Green Cards against a Congressional top of 226,000 for every annum.

The most significant number of 1.5 million holds up list is from America's southern neighbour Mexico, trailed by a removed India with 227,000 and China with almost 180,000.

The more significant part of those in the family-supported Green Card holding up the list is kin of US residents. Under current law, US residents can support their relatives and blood family members for Green Cards or lasting lawful residency.

President Donald Trump is against such an arrangement which he calls as chain migration and needs to annul this. The resistance Democratic gathering is fervently contradicted to nullify family-supported migration framework.

Notwithstanding 4,000,000 family-supported Green Card candidates, another 827,000, a sizeable number of whom are from India, are sitting tight in line for lasting legal residency. The tight sitting line for work-based green card candidate is meticulously running into over ten years for Indian IT proficient.

As indicated by DHS, a dominant part of Indians hanging tight in line for family-based Green Cards are kin of US residents. They number more than 181,000. This is trailed by 42,000 wedded offspring of US residents and more than 2,500 life partners and minor offspring of changeless occupants.