MUMBAI: Addressing issues concerning the perceived lack of reforms on authorized immigration programs, Karine Jean Pierre, Press Secretary, White Home, advised reporters that the Biden administration is “…Continuing to do everything we can to improve the visa process.”In a briefing on Wednesday, late evening, India time, Pierre stated, “If we look at the H1-B visa process, we have taken action to improve that: end the process and backlogs for lawful permanent residents who are eligible to become US citizens.”“Just last month, for example, as a part of our efforts to strengthen the integrity of our immigration system and reduce potential for fraud, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published a final rule relating to H1-B visas. So, the changes promote fairer and more equitable outcomes,” she added.Pierre emphasised, “And so, we will continue our work to improve the system within our authorities. And that has certainly been a priority.” The H-1B visa is a highly regarded work visa for Indians aspiring to work within the US. Usually, at the least 60% of the annual quota of 85,000 is allotted to Indian beneficiaries particularly these working within the know-how sector.TOI in its version of Feb 1, had coated the proposed change – a transfer to a beneficiary-centric choice course of for H-1B visas as a way to forestall gaming of the system.Underneath the beneficiary-centric system, which is able to kick in for the primary time for the upcoming H-1B season, a overseas nationwide’s passport or legitimate journey doc will likely be required for an H-1B cap E-registration to be made on his/her behalf by sponsoring US employers. This doc will likely be used because the beneficiary’s (ie: overseas nationals) distinctive identifier. Every beneficiary will solely be entered into the H-1B cap lottery choice course of as soon as, whatever the variety of E-registrations submitted on his or her behalf.Final submitting season, (for fiscal yr that commenced on Oct 1, 2023), USCIS had acquired 7,58,994 eligible registrations – a 60% rise in numbers. USCIS identified that some sponsoring corporations had tried to achieve an unfair benefit by working collectively to submit a number of registrations on behalf of the identical beneficiary, thus rising his or her probabilities of being chosen within the lottery. This led to strengthening of the mechanism.E-registrations for H-1B visas opens on March 6 and run by way of March 22. Publish which US employers should file detailed functions for these beneficiaries who’ve been chosen within the lottery.Underneath the brand new mechanism, if a beneficiary is chosen within the lottery, every potential employer (say Co A, Co B) that filed a registration on that beneficiary’s behalf will likely be notified and eligible to file an H-1B cap petition for the beneficiary. This in flip can even give beneficiaries some autonomy in selecting their employer, if they’re chosen within the lottery and have a number of job provides.The first cause or the decades-long employment-linked inexperienced card backlog for Indians is the per-country cap. Sadly, payments which have aimed to take away the per-country cap of seven% such because the ‘Fairness for High-Skilled Immigration Act’ amongst others, haven’t been handed. Extra just lately, in February, the Nationwide Safety Settlement – a $118.28 billion package deal that sought to strengthen border safety and approved extra help to Israel and Ukraine and contained numerous measures for authorized immigration reform didn’t see the sunshine of the day.Via the Immigration Nationality Act (INA), the US Congress authorizes the federal government to problem 6.75 lakh inexperienced playing cards yearly. From this whole, 4.80 lakh inexperienced playing cards are allotted for ‘family preference’ immigrants; 1.40 lakh for ‘employment-based’ immigrants; and 55,000 for range visa lottery winners (Indians aren’t eligible for this class). For the primary time in over 30 years, the invoice had proposed to lift the cap on the variety of immigrant visas accessible yearly by including a further 2.50 lakh immigrant visas over 5 years. 1.60 lakh of those visas had been to be family-based, and the opposite 90,000 employment-based. It additionally had measures to guard documented dreamers (corresponding to youngsters of H-1B visa holders) from ageing out and shedding their H-4 dependent visa standing on turning 21. Supplied they’d lived as a dependent youngster of an employment-based nonimmigrant for at the least 8 years previous to turning 21, they might have been eligible to stay briefly within the US with work authorization.Referring to this invoice and responding to a query posed by the media, Pierre was emphatic that Republicans prevented the invoice from passing.“The point is the President (Biden) actually did the work to get a bipartisan bill done, that Act that deals with an issue that the majority of Americans care about. He did. It dealt with border security challenges. It dealt with immigration policy. He actually did that.” “Republicans got in the way. They rejected it. Well, Republicans in the House got in the way, and then it was rejected because of what they were told by the last — by the last president, by Donald Trump, to kill it.”
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