Mumbai: The US DPR has passed a better rebuild (BBB) ACT, which contains key provisions related to immigration.
What happens next? This is the topest question in everyone’s mind.
Read Alsous Home Passing Reform Reformsweeping Law Immigration for the Law Immigration System authorized by the US House on Friday – one that might reduce suffering caused by Indian Diaspora which faces a decade of a long backlog for all green cards, for Indians very much Skilled because the green card backlog has a waiting time of almost 80 years more (according to the Cato Institute research), it is very important that BBB ACT, which will help clean this backlog, promulgated.
The law is now moving into the Senate, where it will be discussed and debated.
More than that, as the first step, the parliamentary senate will also check it to determine whether the provisions are such that they can be included in the budget reconciliation / spend the bill.
As Toi has been explained earlier, post parliament is not one selected – role is an advisor in nature.
If the immigration provisions are found inappropriate for reconciliation bills, Kamala Harris, as vice president, can reject this ‘Guidance’ – a debatable question is whether the Democrats will take the step.
Democrats include immigration reform in the reconciliation bill to overcome filibuster clauses.
In the Senate, where there is a split of 50:50 between the Republicans and Democrats, the clause philibuster will need 60 people for part of the bill (which means the support needed from the Republican and will not come).
However, the reconciliation bill requires a simple majority vote.
However, immigration experts are not clear about what the future of the BBB Act will be.
For now, it is waiting and watching.
The two beneficial issues contained in the BBB Act are: 1.
Recapture of unused green cards Numbersthe BBB Act, provides to reclaim the unused family and work based on unused green card numbers from 1992 to 2021.
It is estimated that this provision will be Preventing the loss of nearly 1.5 unused lakh cards based on green family and almost 1 work-based work-based green lakh which ended on September 30, this year.
BBB Act will also prevent the loss of future unused numbers.
Every year the US set aside only 1.40 lakh green cards for job applicants based and there are 7% per country hat.
Given the weight of India in the US – the majority of them hold the H-1B visa, this limits the challenge policy poses and has produced a large backlog for them in the category based on employment.
If it is enforced, it will help thousands of skilled Indians and family avoid those who separate.
A long time of waiting, meaning that children from many Indian families are brought to the country as toddlers, age out (when they turn 21), because they also have to transit to students’ visas (who have their own problems, such as high costs, limited Work feasibility) or must deport into other countries (such as their home country India).
According to a previous study conducted by David Bier, a researcher at the Cato Institute, as of April 2020, 1.36 children lakh from the Indian family was caught in the category of green card backlog EB2 and EB3 work based on, 62% of these children would agree out Without getting a green card.
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Jumping queue, for the price: The bill will allow foreign nationals to apply for status adjustments (transit to green cards) before they reach their place in the line below the current rules, at payment costs $ 1,500 (plus a fee of $ 250 For each derivative – family members).
At present, foreign nationals can submit an adjustment request only if priority for the country’s category and their current immigrant visa.
Liberation can also be searched from the quota of visas per country and freed from numerical limitations as described below: a) Recipient of a family-based green card application approved, with a priority date over two years old, can adjust the status, for a fee of $ 2,500; b) receiver approved EB-1, EB-2, or EB-3 VISA application (eg: work related to green cards) with a priority date over two years, can adjust the cost of $ 5,000; and c) Beneficiaries approved EB-5 Petition (investment related to green cards) with a priority date over two years old, can adjust the status, for a fee of $ 50,000.
Adjustment of the status provisions (valid until September 30, 2031) will apply 180 days after the entry into force or on May 1, 2022, which is earlier.
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