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Deepa Fernandes, Tal Kopan, San Francisco Chronicle, Sept. 28, 2021 "Because of COVID and other Trump administration restrictions in fiscal year 2020, an extra 120,000 green cards were added to the annual allotment for all immigrants applying based...

Cyrus Mehta, Aug. 30, 2021 If the US Does Not Eradicate Vaccine Inequality, the Requirement of COVID Vaccinations for Many Green Card Applicants Will Result in a De Facto Ban "Effective October 1, 2021, with few exceptions, those applying for...

David J. Bier, July 14, 2021 "The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is poised to waste well over 100,000 employment-based green cards for legal immigrants waiting in the 1.2 million person backlog caused by the low visa caps. Instead of issuing...

Cyrus Mehta, Apr. 13, 2020 "I have received inquiries from lawful permanent residents, or green card holders, who are outside the United States and have been unable to return to the United States in the COVID-19 period. They are unable to return...

Congressional Research Service, Mar. 26, 2020 "This report describes the results of a CRS analysis that projects the 10-year impact of eliminating the 7% per-country ceiling on the first three employment-based immigration categories: EB1, EB2,...

USCIS, Jan. 16, 2020 "U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is issuing policy guidance in the USCIS Policy Manual regarding eligibility requirements, filing, and adjudication of requests to replace Permanent Resident Cards using the...

Abigail Hauslohner, Washington Post, Dec. 17, 2019 "An estimated 800,000 immigrants who are working legally in the United States are waiting for a green card, an unprecedented backlog in employment-based immigration that has fueled a bitter policy...

DHS OIG, Mar. 9, 2018 - "USCIS regularly posts information on its website about the time it takes field offices to adjudicate green card applications (processing time). Yet, the information is unclear and not helpful to USCIS’ customers because...

Parija Kavilanz, CNN Money, June 8, 2018 - "Dr. Raghuveer Kura is the only kidney specialist that the town of Poplar Bluff, Missouri, has had at its hospital for the past nine years. He sees nearly 3,000 patients, including 80 who need life-saving...

Simon Montlake, CSMonitor, June 1, 2018 - "Immigrants married to US citizens who petition for them to stay present an easy target since they have declared themselves to US immigration services. Self-reporting immigrants make tempting targets for...

On May 15, 2015 Greg Siskind posted this: "The White House has appeared to have received the legal go ahead to proceed with implementing a proposal hinted at in the President’s executive action remarks in November 2014. One of the more popular...

Suzanne Sataline, Foreign Policy, Sept. 22, 2017 - "Changes in the U.S. skilled visa scheme could trigger large economic and intellectual losses, especially in states with many South Asian residents such as California and New Jersey. Some foreign...

Cyrus Mehta, July 30, 2016 - " David Bier at the Cato Institute has emerged as a fresh and new scholarly voice on immigration. It has always been known that an individual who got sponsored by an employer today in the India employment-based third...

"People obtaining lawful permanent resident status by region or selected country of last residence: 1820 - 2013. Hover to see details." - Natalia Bronshtein, Feb. 25, 2015 .

Much has been made of the estimated four million ( or more ) unauthorized people who may benefit from executive action announced by the White House and DHS last month. But the hard truth about immigration reform is that unless Congress passes legislation...