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EB-3 is a visa preference category for United States employment-based permanent residency. It is intended for "skilled workers", "professionals", and "other workers". [1] Those are prospective immigrants who don't qualify for the EB-1 or EB-2 preferences. The EB-3 requirements are less stringent, but the backlog may be longer.
A backlog in cases of abused or abandoned young immigrants seeking green cards has more than doubled in the last two years, according to a new analysis of federal data by advocacy groups that was ...
Immigration Voice is a 501(c)(4) non-profit organization that helps immigrants through legislative and executive branches of government, solving problems in the employment-based immigration process. The organization focuses on engaging with both legislative and executive branches of the government to advocate for reforms aimed at improving the ...
A "Backlog Unit" was created in Philadelphia in 1978 to resolve the thousands of federal equal employment complaints inherited from the Civil Service Commission. In 1980, Eleanor Holmes Norton began re-characterizing the backlog cases as "workload" in her reports to Congress, thus fulfilling her promise to eliminate the backlog. [37]
prolonged backlog in processing green cards is threatening to dethrone the US standing atop the global competition for tech talent, according to one Google Executive. The processing delays stem in ...
Immigrants who want a permanent residency are granted a green card (immigrant visa), which allows for someone to work legally, travel abroad and return, bring children and spouse, and become eligible for citizenship. [26] About one million green cards are granted annually. In 2019, 13.7% of foreign-born residents populated the United States. [27]
Critics of the H-1B visa program say the reason for the backlog for employer-sponsored green cards is in part due to the dual intent nature of the H-1B visa, allowing a temporary non-immigrant to gain an employer-sponsored green card. The issue critics have with dual intent is that both non-immigrant temporary guest workers and people who do ...
Major tech companies are urging the Department of Homeland Security to reconsider “aging out” immigration policies that prevent children of documented immigrants to remain in the US beyond the ...