The original bill designed to provide a never-ending flow of foreign workers to employers was titled the Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act; this year, the House has re-introduced, without an open hearing or meaningful debate, the 2021 bill, called the Equal Access to Green Cards for Legal Employment (EAGLE) Act of 2022, H.R.3648
Two main provisions of the bill:
- Scrapping the per-country cap
- Eliminating the cap on green cards.
- Allowing those who get a temporary visa and are sponsored for a green card by their employer to get a permanent work permit within two years of applying.
Past blog posts on legislation scrapping the per-country cap
- "Big Tech Green Card Giveaway Cleared Senate, but Expired with the 116th Congress: But it will be back", January 7, 2021
- Congress should scrap the current employment green card system and replace it with a merit-based system
Why Scrap the Per-Country Cap?
- If the per-country caps were to be eliminated, then the effect would be that nearly all of the employment green cards would be issued to workers from India for at least three years.
- In each of the first two years after the cap is eliminated, Indians could possibly use as many as 89 percent of the EB-2 visas and 100 percent of EB-3 visas. This seems a little unfair to me, and also somehow a violation of the spirit of American immigration ideals.
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