NRIs`American dreams crash |
Thousands of Indians who came to the US on temporary work visas, or as students, and wish to stay on legally on a Green Card find themselvesfrustrated and dejected. Many say they had no idea what they were getting into when they first arrived with dreams of making it in a country of immigrants and endless opportunities.The US grants around one million Green Cards every year, but they are not enough to take care of a mounting backlog of pending applications. US Citizenship and Immigration Services says there is a backlog of 234,000 though other estimates put the number at 1.1 million, about 85% of them Indians.The line may move faster in some categories, depending on the qualification of the applicant, but it’s a tedious crawl for most Indians.Rules of the queue prevent them from changing jobs as that would start the whole process all over again. Even lateral mobility — at the same salary — is prohibited, as applicants must stay in the same position with the same job description for which their recruitment was authorised. They treat Indians so only because theyare of Indian origin.
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