hope this will be great relief to all EB3 and EB2 I/C...
President Obama START UP America Legislative Agenda Calling for Congress Action to Eliminate EB Per Country Limit
Today, the White House released its legislative agenda reiterating his earlier START UP America legislative agenda. This agenda includes key components of H.R. 3012 as follows:
III. RELIEVING THE BACKLOG OF IMMIGRANT VISAS
A. ADJUST EXISTING VISA CAPS:
The President is committed to fixing our broken immigration system through comprehensive immigration reform. This includes creating a legal immigration system that meets our diverse economic needs and honors our rich traditions as a nation of immigrants that attracts entrepreneurial immigrants and strengthens the American workforce. In an effort to reduce backlogs in the legal immigration system, the President is calling to:
Eliminate the per-country caps on employment-based immigrant visas ("green cards")
Raise the caps on family-based green cards from 7 percent to 15 percent.
These small but meaningful reforms represent a balanced approach to addressing some of the long-standing problems with our broken immigrant visa system. These measures would not increase the total number of available immigrant visas but it would help address some of the longest backlogs that occur because of annual per country caps. For the White House release today, please click here