A third of all legal immigrants face a second type of wait between their sponsor's petition and their own application: the time it takes for a green card to become available under the immigration quotas.
Because Congress limited the number of green cards for certain types of immigrants, not everyone who receives an approval after the first wait can apply for a green card immediately.
The average wait time to apply for a green card in all preference categories has doubled since 1991.
An I-140 petition for employer-sponsored workers starts the employment-based preference green card process, after which point the worker must wait for a green card number to become available.
If the measures above do not prevent wait times from creeping back up, the law should automatically grant a green card to someone who has waited for five years or more.
The average immigrant's wait time for a green card was nearly twice as long in 2018 as it was in 1991 when the quotas were first implemented.
Wait times for immigrants will continue to grow year after year as a result of America's antiquated legal immigration quotas, and many immigrants who are applying right now will not see their green cards for decades, if ever.
https://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/immigration-wait-times-quotas-have-doubled-green-card-backlogs-are-long
Because Congress limited the number of green cards for certain types of immigrants, not everyone who receives an approval after the first wait can apply for a green card immediately.
The average wait time to apply for a green card in all preference categories has doubled since 1991.
An I-140 petition for employer-sponsored workers starts the employment-based preference green card process, after which point the worker must wait for a green card number to become available.
If the measures above do not prevent wait times from creeping back up, the law should automatically grant a green card to someone who has waited for five years or more.
The average immigrant's wait time for a green card was nearly twice as long in 2018 as it was in 1991 when the quotas were first implemented.
Wait times for immigrants will continue to grow year after year as a result of America's antiquated legal immigration quotas, and many immigrants who are applying right now will not see their green cards for decades, if ever.
https://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/immigration-wait-times-quotas-have-doubled-green-card-backlogs-are-long
No comments:
Post a Comment