1/ The Fairness of High-Skilled Immigrants Act, 2019, or #HR1044/#S386, which would've removed country caps on green cards in the US for Indian and Chinese nationals, particularly bringing the wait time for Indians from 150yrs to ~10...
2/ ... was blocked in the Senate by Sen. Dave Perdue after bipartisan support in the House. If you were Indian and moved to the US for an undergraduate degree in 2001, you'd be 36, have spent half your life in the country and not have a green card.
3/ You might be married with kids but if you lose your job, you might have to leave your family after paying for a college degree and 14yrs worth of usually fairly high taxes. Isn't that absurd?
4/ Despite being Indian, and a beneficiary of this bill, there are problems with this bill. One, most Indians in the backlog are not high skilled tech workers, but cheap outsourced labour from IT consultancies like Wipro and Infosys.
5/ Two, without a smoother cap removal transition plan, this would essentially flood the green card quota with Indians for the next ~10yrs, throttling competent candidates of other nationalities.
6/ If those two issues are fully addressed, I this bill will be unanimously favored and @sendavidperdue will let it pass and hopefully Trump will sign it!
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