A group of Indian-American healthcare workers held a peaceful protest in front of the US Capitol today morning, urging the US Congress to pass a new bill, called the Fairness Bill, that repeals the per-country quota for legal permanent residency in the United States of America.
A Green Card, known officially as a Permanent Resident Card, is a document issued to immigrants to the US as evidence that the bearer has been granted the privilege of residing permanently in the country.
In a joint statement on Monday, the Indian-American doctors said that they are in a 150-plus-year Green Card backlog due to archaic country caps that allows no nation to get more than seven per cent of employment-based green cards.
“India is a land of a billion plus people but the number of green cards it gets is the same as a country as small as Iceland. There is no cap on H-1B visa though and Indians make 50 per cent of the H-1B work force. This discrepancy between H-1B and green cards has created an inhuman backlog that is adversely affecting our professional and personal lives,” they said.
The protestors urged Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren to bring the aforementioned Fairness Bill to the vote as a bipartisan solution to help healthcare and emergency workers, and other skilled professionals.
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