Country-based caps in the US green card system to be eliminated!

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Country-based caps in the US green card system to be eliminated!

AUS immigration Bill that would significantly reduce the wait time for Indian and Chinese green card applicants may soon be heard in the Senate, which reopens later this month.The Bill would eliminate country-based caps in the green card system, which would significantly reduce wait times for Indian and Chinese applicants, but could moderately increase the waiting period for other groups.

Politics, family values and immigration come into play with a recent proposal by the Obama administration to ease the application process for green cards, according to interviews with people with opposing views on the immigration issue.

Janet Napolitano, secretary of homeland security, explained in a memo Friday that the department plans to make an administrative change that would allow certain foreign-born residents without legal permission to be in the country to apply for green cards — without having to be separated from their families for long periods. A green card gives the applicant permission to live and work in the United States.

Changing the process may bring to light countless families living in the shadows, immigration advocates in Winston-Salem said, but the changes would keep many of the restrictive standards currently in place.

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