Cato published my paper about the employment-based green card backlog today. For the first time, it's over 1 million petitions for workers, investors, and their families. Many health care workers stuck in these lines cato.org/publications/i… 
3/4 of the backlog is from India with the numbers increasing rapidly.
More than 200,000 petitions for Indians in the EB-2 and EB-3 skilled worker categories would expire due to the death of the worker if they could find a way to stay in line for the 89 year-wait that they are facing.
Again, these include tens of thousands of petitions for doctors, nurses, and other health care and medical workers. Not to mention researchers and technicians. America needs to give them all permanent residence status immediately.
Important to note that these immigrants are waiting for green cards *solely due to caps* on green cards, not due to bureaucratic delay. They are approved, ready to apply, but can't because Congress has kept low green card limits enacted in 1990.
