The President’s Advisory Commission unanimously chose to recommend President Joe Biden processing all applications for green cards, or permanent resident cards within six months. Green card holders are allowed to live and work permanently in the United States. Recommendations for the Presidential Advisory Commission on Asia -America, original Hawaii, and the Pacific Islands (Pacaanhpi) will be sent to Joe Biden for his approval. After being cleaned, it can bring cheers to hundreds of thousands of Indians waiting for years, some or even decades, to get permanent residency in the US.
The proposal was submitted by Indian leaders Ajay Jain Bhutoria during the Pacaanhpi meeting in Washington DC. All 25 commissioners in a round voice agreed to the proposal.The Commission recommends US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) reviewing their processes and setting new internal cycle time goals by removing excessive steps if there, automating any manual agreement, increasing the internal dashboard and reporting system and increasing policy. Recommendations include reducing the cycle time to process all forms related to family -based green card applications, DACA renewal, all other green card applications within six months and issue a adjudication decision within six months after the application received by it.
It also recommends the Foreign Department of the National Visa State Department (NVC) employs additional officers to increase their capacity to process a green card application interview by 100 percent in three months from August 2022, and to increase the visa interview of the Green Card Application and try a decision by 150 per Per per pen cent in April 2023.”After that the green card visa interview and visa processing time line must be a maximum of six months,” he said.
Bhutoria notes that the immigration system has not changed to maintain speed with substantial increases in the US population in recent decades. In the policy paper submitted by Bhutoria, the disproportionate numbers of the Green Family Preference Card issued against the available Green Card are highlighted. Only 65,452 Green Card Family Preferences issued in TA 2021 from 226,000 Annual Green Cards available. This makes hundreds of thousands of green cards not used, making more families separate without the need.
“The extraordinary waiting time for green cards is available, causing significant difficulties for American families who are forced to wait decades to reunite with their loved ones, even though those people have met the requirements to immigrate now,” Bhutoria said.
“Family separation takes terrible emotional victims on the family, and it imposes clear logistics, economic, and emotional difficulties on the family, and the greater the backlog nature makes the process uncertain and future planning is impossible,” he added.