Bill to Eliminate Per-Country Employment-Based Caps is Introduced in Congress
On April 29, Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) introduced a bill (that has been co-sponsored by Bob Goodlatte (R-VA)), that would eliminate the arbitrary per-country caps for employment-based immigrants.
Currently, the number of employment-based immigrants that can come from any one country per year is capped at 7% and because of this, certain Chinese or Indian employment-based immigrant applicants face up to a decade or longer for a green card. So a top post-graduate at the top of his or her class at a school such as Johns Hopkins or MIT, for example, can sometimes wait much longer than a student from a less-populated country.
The cap is completely arbitrary and makes no sense at all.
The bill is a good example of a lawmaker offering a common sense solution to a problem that presently restricts the opportunity for U.S. employers to employ the talent they want to employ based on just that—talent alone and not country of origin.
I’ll post updates on the bill.
