This bill is an amendment to the house version of the DHS funding bill which will be voted on in the next few weeks. HR 392 aims to remove the per country caps on employment based green cards and decrease backlog. It will mostly help Indians who have been waiting in line 10+ years and hurt everyone else. Is there still a chance that HR 392 can be passed as part of the DHS bill this month? Pro Indian organizations such as Immigration Voice keep working hard to lobby Congress for this bill and claim that it will pass this month. I am very worried about the possibility that it gets passed.
No way this will be passed. You can relax!! - indian H1B waiting for GC since 2011
Not even a chance. I’m Indian btw
I read that Schumer (democratic minority leader) might request that this amendment removing country caps gets passed in exchange for approving higher funding for the border wall (part of DHS bill). Is it possible this could happen?
I like how people say it would hurt others whereas now an Indian who came here legally, has applied for an employment based GC in 201x, will pay taxes for decades would realistically be getting it later than someone from ROW who is not even born yet.
US doesnt owe you anything. Take it or gtfo.
I see that you’re going around being rude to every immigrant. Are you indian? Seems so from your username
Keep dreaming bro. Without country quota US will become India. Country quota is there to ensure diversity.
Diversity makes sense to me, that’s why there’s the 50k annual diversity GC lottery. But for employment (especially in tech) country of birth is rather arbitrary don’t you think?
Tech should also have diversity. Already too many Indians and Chinese, and they prefer hiring their own people.
True. If per country cap is removed US will become India. They will never let that happen.
How will US become India, can you elaborate? Only 15% of the visas are employment based. Of these 15% majority of the people are already in US.
No, it’s true.. I heard they were shipping over Narmada damn on 4 oil tankers. Amit Sharma is becoming mayor of New Jersey. If this passes GOP m movers are obliged by law to touch the feet of a cow before every vote
Country caps are there for a reason - to ensure fairness and equality for each country. Otherwise it’s just first in best dressed
Yes, it is very fair to deny first come first serve and to keep someone on temp visas for 70 years whereas that person's colleague with the same job and pay gets it in 6 months, all because they were born in different countries.
Seriously the mental gymnastics folks are willing to do to oppose a fairer system
I am not sure if removing country quota is even beneficial for Indians working in tech. It will mean much more supply of tech workforce which will surely drop the salary, increase work hours and harder interview due to increased competition.
Your logic makes no sense. People waiting for green card and who will benefit from HR392 are already in US on work visas for years or decades. How will it increase the supply any more than current ? Also, how is reducing the backlog and allowing these employees on restrictive work visas to change jobs easier and start their own businesses going to drop salary etc ? It should have the opposite effect if anything since these immigrants are in a better position to negotiate from strength once legal status is settled for good.
Mine makes no sense and yours makes sense all the time. Great job. Your condescending opinion is ground truth. You must have skipped elementary education. You are not willing to listen to a different opinion, don’t you? Increased quota means more people getting permanent residence in this country. People would have gone back to India otherwise will not. People who went back can come back after a few years easily as well. How does this not increase the supply? Increased quota also encourages more immigration effort which will result in more software engineers in H1B, L1 and what not (since Indian immigrants are mostly applying as a software engineer).
U hv nothing to worry, this bill won't see the light of day