A bunch of Silicon Valley tech staff from India marched in San Jose, California, on Dec. 17 to demand higher means to safe a inexperienced card.
Nevertheless, the cap on skills-based inexperienced playing cards issued per nation has resulted in many staff from India being unable to get one.
When President Joe Biden revoked the ban the next 12 months, the H-1B visa to inexperienced card backlog had already hit an all-time excessive of 1.4 million folks.
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Based on the handfuls of staff who joined the march, they’ve been ready for his or her inexperienced playing cards for many years.
The protesters held an illustration in entrance of Consultant Zoe Lofgren (D, CA-19), chair of the Home subcommittee on immigration, to induce her to convey her proposed invoice to the Home flooring for a vote within the coming week.
“What we’re preventing for is fundamental equality,” Malavalli stated. “Deal with us based mostly on what abilities we convey to this nation and never essentially based mostly on the place we had been born.”
Underneath present legal guidelines, H1B staff who lose their jobs for no matter motive are granted solely two months to discover a new job to remain within the U.S. earlier than they change into unlawful immigrants.