Remove per country numerical limitation on Employment Based Visas - Get the bills on the House/Senate floor for voting.
Currently USA gives 140K Employment based visas per year. But there is a numerical limitation of only 7% per country. Which means each country gets only roughly about 9800 visas every year (EB-1, EB-2, EB-3 are main categories). A big country like India gets the same number of employment based visas as compared to a small country like Fiji. There is a lack of fairness in this rule because America has always been of equal opportunity to every person rather than equal opportunity for every country.
On top of that every dependent of an employment based visa recipient is also counted in the same quota instead of Family based quota even though there is no law or mandate that requires the dependents to be counted in the employment based category.
Due to this issue many employment based visa applicants especially from countries like India, China, Philippines, Mexico are waiting in decades long wait list to get a Employment based Green Card.
These applicants have no other option rather than stay in the USA using H1-B visas till they have a Visa available which takes decades due to this numerical limitation. This leads to H1-B visa abuse where in Companies are using H1-B visas to bring wages down and making difficult for US citizens in STEM fields to get a job. There is a lot of lobbying which takes place in any big corporation to give work to people on H1-B payrolls of Consulting companies at lower billing rates rather than the corporation investing in hiring/training and retaining qualified US STEM workers and students alike. This leads to more and more H1-B applications being filed every year by these outsourcing companies displacing the US Citizen STEM worker leading to a never ending cycle of H1-B Abuse.
Removal of per country limit would put an end to H1-B Abuse. It will force the US based corporation to hire from a pool of US Citizens first followed by any other Legal Permanent Resident. It will also put an end to the employers taking advantage of this decades long wait for Green Card to treat H1B employees with respect and dignity.
There is a bill in the house HR 392 having more than 220 co-sponsors for the same and also another bill in the senate S-281. These bills advocate "Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants"
We humbly request the Congress and Mr. President to please bring these two bills on to the house/senate floor for voting. These bills are also supporting Mr. President's goal in creating a skill/merit based Visa system instead of an outdated visa system which does not consider skill/merit in awarding Green Cards to eligible people.
Hope this petition is considered in making sure that America is still "The Land of Opportunities" that it has always been.
On top of that every dependent of an employment based visa recipient is also counted in the same quota instead of Family based quota even though there is no law or mandate that requires the dependents to be counted in the employment based category.
Due to this issue many employment based visa applicants especially from countries like India, China, Philippines, Mexico are waiting in decades long wait list to get a Employment based Green Card.
These applicants have no other option rather than stay in the USA using H1-B visas till they have a Visa available which takes decades due to this numerical limitation. This leads to H1-B visa abuse where in Companies are using H1-B visas to bring wages down and making difficult for US citizens in STEM fields to get a job. There is a lot of lobbying which takes place in any big corporation to give work to people on H1-B payrolls of Consulting companies at lower billing rates rather than the corporation investing in hiring/training and retaining qualified US STEM workers and students alike. This leads to more and more H1-B applications being filed every year by these outsourcing companies displacing the US Citizen STEM worker leading to a never ending cycle of H1-B Abuse.
Removal of per country limit would put an end to H1-B Abuse. It will force the US based corporation to hire from a pool of US Citizens first followed by any other Legal Permanent Resident. It will also put an end to the employers taking advantage of this decades long wait for Green Card to treat H1B employees with respect and dignity.
There is a bill in the house HR 392 having more than 220 co-sponsors for the same and also another bill in the senate S-281. These bills advocate "Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants"
We humbly request the Congress and Mr. President to please bring these two bills on to the house/senate floor for voting. These bills are also supporting Mr. President's goal in creating a skill/merit based Visa system instead of an outdated visa system which does not consider skill/merit in awarding Green Cards to eligible people.
Hope this petition is considered in making sure that America is still "The Land of Opportunities" that it has always been.
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