{"id":87908,"date":"2019-07-10T16:46:23","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T11:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=7889"},"modified":"2019-07-10T16:46:23","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T11:16:23","slug":"u-s-congress-to-vote-on-bill-to-remove-country-cap-on-green-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/u-s-congress-to-vote-on-bill-to-remove-country-cap-on-green-card\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Congress to vote on bill to remove country-cap on Green Card"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The US House of Representatives will vote on legislation called Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act also known as HR 1044.The bill seeks to lift the country-cap on issuing green cards.<\/li><li>The lifting of per-country cap on Green Card would mainly benefit professionals on H-1B visas from countries such as India for whom the wait for Green Card is more than a decade.<\/li><li>Some of the recent studies have said the waiting period for Indian IT professionals on H-1B visas is more than 70 years.<\/li><li>Further,experts have said that this bill will increase the per-country cap on family-based immigrant visas from 7% of the total number of such visas available that year to 15%.<\/li><li>The H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa that allows US companies to employ foreign workers in occupations that require theoretical or technical expertise.<\/li><li>Dependents of H-1B visa holders get H-4 visas.Green Card is an identification card which gives one the status of a permanent resident along with legal rights to work in the USA.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US House of Representatives will vote on legislation called Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act also known as HR 1044.The bill seeks to lift the country-cap on issuing green cards. The lifting of per-country cap on Green Card would mainly benefit professionals on H-1B visas from countries such as India for whom the wait for&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/u-s-congress-to-vote-on-bill-to-remove-country-cap-on-green-card\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">U.S. Congress to vote on bill to remove country-cap on Green Card<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[5186,5187,63],"class_list":["post-87908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","tag-green-card","tag-h1b-visa","tag-us","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704860594},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}