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09/12/22 23:00 PM IST

Equal Access to Green Cards for Legal Employment (EAGLE) Act of 2022.

In News
  • The White House supported US Congress to pass a law that seeks to eliminate the per-country quota on green cards to allow US-based employers to focus on hiring people based on merit and not birthplace.
  • The House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on the Equal Access to Green Cards for Legal Employment (EAGLE) Act of 2022.
EAGLE Act
  • Eliminate a per-country cap on employment-based green cards — a policy that disproportionately affects Indian immigrants
  • If passed, this legislation would phase out the per-country caps over the course of nine years to ensure that eligible immigrants from less populated countries are not excluded
  • It will allow individuals who have been waiting in the immigrant visa backlog for two years to file their Green Card applications
  • Scrap the discriminatory system- The per-country cap on Green Cards is a relic of a discriminatory system that excluded Asian immigrants entirely in the past
Existing Rules
  • Under existing rules, the US issues only 1.4 lakh green cards every year and there is a 7% cap on every country. This means just 9800 people per country are eligible for Green cards.
  • If applicants from one country overshoot the cap, this results in a backlog.
  • The petitions for Green cards beyond the cap are not considered until their petition falls within the initial 7% per country cap.
Benefits
  • Will reduce the immigrant visa backlog
  • Indian-Americans is set to benefit
  • employers can focus on hiring people based on merit, not their birthplace
  • The bill would also keep families together by ensuring that children of employment-based immigrants do not age out of dependent status
Source- Hindustan Times

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