WASHINGTON: The US President’s Advisory Commission Unanimously chose to recommend President Joe Biden to process all applications for green cards or permanent residency within six months.To be sent to the White House now for approved, the recommendation of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Asia-American, the native of Hawaii, and the Pacific Islands (Pacaanhpi) if adopted is likely to bring cheers to tens of thousands of India-American people and those who are waiting, some people, several People are waiting, some people, some people wait, some people, some people wait, some people, some people are waiting and they are waiting, some Americans and some people are waiting and they are waiting and waiting, some Americans and waiting, some Americans and Waiting, some Americans and waiting, some Americans and waiting, even for decades, for green cards.
A proposal in this case was driven by the leaders of the prominent Indian-American community Ajay Jain Bhutoria during the Pacaanhpi meeting, where all 25 commissioners unanimously agreed to it.Proceedings of the meeting here in the National Capital was a live webcast last week.To reduce, pending green card backlog, the advisory commission recommended us citizenship and immigration services (usccis) to review their processes, systems, policies and establish new internal cycle time goals by streamlining processes, removing steps any any. Increasing the internal dashboard and reporting system and increasing policy.
This recommendation aims to reduce the cycle time to process all forms related to family -based green card applications, DACA renewal, all other green card applications within six months and issue adjudication decisions within six months after the application received by it.
The Commission recommends the Foreign Department of the National VISA Department (NVC) to employ additional officers to increase their capacity to process a green card application interview by 100 percent in three months from August 2022, and to increase a green card application visa interview and try a decision by 150 percent – Up from a capacity of 32,439 in April 2022 – in April 2023.
“After that the green card visa interview and visa processing time line must be a maximum of six months,” he said Intended to facilitate immigrants to live and work in this country, the commission recommends that the uscccis must review the request for work permits, travel documents, and temporary status extension or changes within three months and try the decision.
Only 65,452 Green Card Family Preferences issued in the 2021 fiscal year out of 226,000 annual green cards available, leaving hundreds of thousands of green cards that are not used (with many tend to be wasted permanently in the future), and make more families separate without the need. is 421,358 interviews delayed in April compared to 436,700 in March, the word policy paper by Bhutoria.Pay attention that while the US population has grown substantially in recent decades, the immigration system has not changed to compensate, he said.The annual immigration rate was set in the early 1990s and most of them remained unchanged since then, he said.
Even worse, the method used to calculate the annual number of job -based immigration and families is very disabled, and has caused family -based immigration rates to be determined in their absolute minimum every year over the past 20 years, while hundreds of thousands of green cards for family members are wasted – Sia, never used by any person, when they can be used to reunite the family instead, said Bhutoria.
“The extraordinary waiting time for green cards is available, causing significant difficulties for American families who are forced to wait decades to reunite with their loved ones, even though those people are eligible to immigrate now.”Family separation takes a terrible emotional victim on the family, and it imposes clear logistics, economic, and emotional difficulties on the family, and the greater the backlog nature makes the process uncertain and future planning is impossible,” he said.
Among other things, the commission also recommended the usccis to expand premium processing to additional job -based green card applications, all work permit petitions, and requests for temporary immigration status extension, which allow applicants to pay USD 2,500 so that their cases were decided in 45 days in a gradual approach.
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