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USCIS announces that it will assign all available 'green cards' for employment this fiscal year

2022-09-09T13:08:10.426Z


The Government seeks to prevent the loss of thousands of permanent residences as happened last year, but in doing so it has changed the way in which they are granted, skipping many who had been waiting for years.


The Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS, for its acronym in English) estimates that this year it will grant the 140,000 permanent residences that it has available for foreign workers, unlike last year when it allowed thousands to be lost.

During the last two years, the coronavirus pandemic has prevented all the

green cards

available to foreign workers from being granted, which already constituted a larger number than usual because they had also been left over in another category and those had been transferred.

Under a USCIS rule, green cards in the family category that are not used automatically carry over the year following the employment year.

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However, because there weren't enough staff last year to keep up with the high demand for new applications and the more than 1.4 million pending cases, more than 68,000

green cards were lost,

The Wall Street Journal reported

.

Currently, the waiting list for immigrants with a work visa is several years.

And since there are quotas by nationality, this means that some have to wait even longer, if there are many applicants from their country, as is the case with immigrants from India.

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The IMMpact organization filed a class action lawsuit against the government in July to try to force it to grant all available visas this year.

The director of USCIS, Ur Jaddou, explained in an interview with the aforementioned media that she introduced several changes in the way in which visas are processed to prevent more from being lost this year due to the lack of personnel and the paper and paper system. pen they use.

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Instead of solving the cases in the order in which they were presented, going from oldest to newest, he decided to have the easiest cases go crazy first.

As a result, more than 95,000 petitions from Indian citizens were approved, five times more than normal, and some people who had been waiting for a few months were granted approval, while many who had been waiting for years were not reviewed.

"We are pleased that USCIS has not wasted any more visas in 2022, but we vehemently object to the irrational order in which these visas were allocated," Jess Bless, an IMMpact attorney, told the newspaper.

Source: telemundo

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