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共和党参议员Mike Lee周三在参议院会议上表示，他一直对政府给绿卡设置条件感到震惊，印度人等待梦寐以求的绿卡等待时间长达200年，而谁又能活长达200年呢；他称这种 "歧视 "与美国择优移民制度的原则 "不一致"。印度的IT专业人士大多是高技术人才，主要以H-1B工作签证来美国，他们是现行移民制度的最大受害者，因为现行移民制度规定每个国家有7%的配额来分配梦寐以求的绿卡或永久合法居留权。目前，合法居住在美国的外国公民和随行家属中，有近百万人“积压”在美国，因为他们已经被批准了就业型绿卡，正在等待领取；其中最多的是来自印度。"今天，如果你是一个来自印度的工作移民，进入EB-绿卡申请程序，你将等待近200年才会考虑你的申请，甚至仅仅因为你的出生地。但是如果你出生在其他任何地方，除了中国以外的任何地方；比方说在加纳、瑞典、印尼，基本上除了印度以外的任何其他国家，你的申请都会被立即考虑。这种歧视根本不符合以努力做出成绩为基础的移民制度的原则，也不符合我们的建国原则和团结我们美国人的原则。”Lee说，他敦促参议院的同事取消对绿卡申请人的国家上限，他寻求司法委员会一致同意解除对S 386的进一步审议的方法，参议院现在也正在着手通过众议院通过的《高技术移民公平法案》(HR 1044)，该法案将取消每个国家7%的上限。该法案将按照申请日期，以先到先得的方式向准移民分配就业签证，而不考虑原国籍。
Republican Senator Mike Lee, on the Senate floor, said on Wednesday that he has always been struck by the fact that the government has conditioned Green Card. The per-country cap on legal permanent residency punishes immigrants from India and the wait for the coveted Green Card for Indians runs into 200 years, a top American senator has said, terming the “discrimination” as “inconsistent” with the principles of a merit-based immigration system.Indian IT professionals, most of whom are highly skilled and come to the US mainly on the H-1B work visas, are the worst sufferers of the current immigration system which imposes a seven per cent per country quota on allotment of the coveted Green Card or permanent legal residency.Currently, there is a backlog of almost one million foreign nationals and accompanying family members lawfully residing in the United States who have been approved for, and are waiting to receive, employment-based Green Cards. The largest number of them are from India.“I mean, literally one country. This is inconsistent with our founding principles. this is not how we try to do things as Americans, and it’s not right. Today, if you’re a work-based immigrant from India entering into the EB- Green Card application process, you will wait almost 200 years before your application is even considered solely because of where you were born,” the senator said. “If you’re born anywhere else, anywhere else other than China; let’s say in Ghana, Sweden, Indonesia, basically any other country other than India, your application will be considered immediately. This sort of discrimination is simply inconsistent with the principles of a merit-based immigration system and with our founding principles and the principles that unite us as Americans,” Lee said. He sought unanimous consent that the judicial committee be discharged from further consideration of S 386 and the Senate now proceed to pass the Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act (HR 1044), as passed by the House, that would eliminate the seven per cent per-country ceiling, along with his amendment.
The legislation would allocate employment-based visas to prospective immigrants by application date on a first-come, first-served basis without regard to country of origin. source
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