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Eliminate Per Country Limit in Employment Based Green Card

This will put a fair system in place for employment based green cards.

Dear President and Congress,



Technology has played a huge part in the last and in the current century and US in particular has played a major role on this compared to other countries. While the policies attract foreign nationals with advanced degrees and professional skills to US, there is no fair system in issuing employment based green cards and making them permanent residents. Every year there are more than 1 million immigrants get green cards in this country. But the number of employment based green cards are 140,000 everything else is family based immigration.



There is no country based limit in H1B visa, but there is a per country limit for employment based green cards. This is creating chaos and huge backlog in the immigration queue. Example, a software engineer or a doctor from Ukraine can immigrate to US based on the skills and get the green card in a year or two, while people of the same skills from China has to wait at least a decade to earn the green card. This is very unfair to limit the green cards based on the country. We were hoping that this will be addressed as part of the Comprehensive Immigration Reform but it's getting delayed and delayed since 2007 and we all people waiting for decades in the queue have lost our hopes. All the resources who got trained in US are Immigrating to Canada or Australia because they honor high skilled immigration as a priority.



There were multiple bills on this brought up to Congress and Senate starting year 2007, but the bill does not move forward anywhere. We, high skilled immigrants are urging to speed up action on this before other high skilled immigrants start leaving this country and lose their interests.