US budget reconciliation bill aims to recapture unused green cards, backlogged Indians to benefit if passed

MUMBAI: On cards, in the US budget reconciliation bill (or the draft Build Back Better Act) that was released recently, is a proposal for recapturing unused family and employment-based green card numbers that were unused from 1992 through 2021. If this proposal does go through, it will help thousands of backlogged skilled Indians, who have a waiting period of 84 years to get an employment-based green card, as per a study by Cato Institute. However, the final outcome of this proposal is still uncertain as it needs to pass both in the House and the Senate.A recent tweet by Dr Pranav Singh touched a chord among the Indian diaspora in the US. He has returned to India and his sentiments relating to the broken US immigration system resonated with many. He tweeted, “As a US critical care physician, if I decided to leave in the midst of a pandemic to come back to India, this is the number one reason. Systemic racism is entrenched in the US immigration system and Indians are the most marginalised legal immigrants due to segregationist country caps,

recent tweet by Dr Pranav Singh touched a chord among the Indian diaspora in the US. He has returned to India and his sentiments relating to the broken US immigration system resonated with many. He tweeted, “As a US critical care physician, if I decided to leave in the midst of a pandemic to come back to India, this is the number one reason. Systemic racism is entrenched in the US immigration system and Indians are the most marginalised legal immigrants due to segregationist country caps,”