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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 ...
However, due to quotas for Indian applicants and a backlog for those applicants stretching several decades, Munjala has little hope of getting a green card for permanent residency even though his ...
These limits have particularly affected people born in India, for whom current waits for green cards run into several decades. [19] According to a CATO analysis, without removing these limits, a person chargeable to India applying today would need to wait 150 years to get a green card under the EB-2 category. [20]
This has caused a massive increase in the immigration court’s backlog. It was just under 1.3 million cases when the Biden-Harris administration began, and as of the end of September, it had ...
As of 2022, USCIS put a moratorium on denials of green card and naturalization applications while the program works its way through the courts. [9] In January 2025, a federal court found that the program was " arbitrary and capricious " and that USCIS had failed to justify the policy's creation, but that the plaintiffs had failed to prove that ...
On April 22, 2020, President Trump signed an executive order amidst the COVID-19 coronavirus significantly reducing the issuance of green cards to immigrants. [45] With few exceptions, the order concerns thousands of immigrant parents, adult children and siblings of citizens seeking to immigrate to the United States.
The Biden administration started processing neglected and abused immigrant kids in the same green card queue as religious workers, meaning they were competing for the same limited number of green ...
Green-card holders may petition for permanent residency for their spouse and children. [58] U.S. green-card holders have experienced separation from their families, sometimes for years. A mechanism to unite families of green-card holders was created by the LIFE Act by the introduction of a "V visa", signed into law by President Clinton. The law ...