1.3lakh kids will age out before obtaining green card, face risk of family separation

13万印度孩子将在获得绿卡之前就超龄，面临家庭分离的风险

MUMBAI: At present, 10.7 lakh Indians are caught up in the employment green-card backlog (EB-2 and EB-3 categories), which will take 134 years to process. Nearly 1.34 lakh children will age out before a green card can be obtained. This, in turn, carries with it a high risk of family separation.

孟买：目前，107万印度人面临职业类绿卡(EB-2和EB-3类别)的积压，将需要134年的时间来处理。将近13.4万名印度孩子将在获得绿卡之前超龄，这又导致了很高的家庭分离风险。

Annually the US sets aside only 1.4 lakh green cardsfor employment-based applicants and there is a 7% per country cap.

美国每年仅为职业申请人预留14万张绿卡，每个国家的上限为7%。

Given the significant influx of skilled Indians in the US – majority of them holding an H-1B visa, this restrictive policy poses challenges. The employment-based green card backlog from India (EB-2 and EB-3 skilled category) has reached 10.7 lakh in March 2023. If factors such as death and aging-out are considered (which will lead to the individuals drop from the backlog statistics), the wait for a green card is 54 years, else it is a whop 134 years. These are the findings of a recent study done byDavid J. Bier, associate director of immigration studies with the Cato Institute.

鉴于大量有技术的印度人涌入美国——其中大多数持有H-1B签证，这一限制性政策带来了挑战。截至2023年3月，来自印度的职业类绿卡(EB-2和EB-3技术类)的积案已达到107万。如果考虑到死亡和超龄等因素，等待绿卡的时间为54年，否则将达到惊人的134年。这是卡托研究所(Cato Institute)移民研究副主任戴维·J·比尔最近进行的一项研究的结果。

Once children turn 21, they can no longer continue with their H-4 visa, which is meant for dependants and is tied to their parent’s H-1B work visa. On aging out (attaining the age of 21), these children who are referred to as documented dreamers have no option but to obtain an F-1 visa meant for international students, which comes with its own challenges such as limited work opportunities for the student and higher fees. The only other alternative is to self deport to India or another country. Many of these children grew up in the US and have little or no connection with their home country.

一旦孩子年满21岁，他们就不能再继续持有H-4签证了。H-4签证是发给家属的，与父母的H-1B工作签证绑定在一起。到了21岁，这些被称为有文件证明的美国梦追寻者的孩子别无选择，只能获得为国际学生提供的F-1签证，这也带来了挑战，比如学生的工作机会有限，费用更高。唯一的其他选择是自我放逐回到印度或去其他国家。这些孩子中的许多人在美国长大，与他们的祖国几乎没有联系。

Bier had earlier stated that, “The fact that Chinese and Indians dominate the backlog is the result of the country caps where green cards are not issued proportionally to the number of pending applicants in each country but rather limited arbitrarily at 7% per nation of birth.”

比尔早些时候曾表示，“中国人和印度人在积压案件中占多数，这是国家配额上限的结果，即绿卡的发放不是与每个国家未决申请人的数量成比例，而是武断地将每个出生国的绿卡数量限制在7%。”

印度时报读者的评论：

pritpal tib

Immigration is not a right. It's a privilege.

移民不是一种权利，而是富人的特权。

Suryanarayana Krishnamurthy

Does thee list include pappu too?

这个等待名单里也包括拉胡尔吗?

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Greed of Foreign land.,No country is better then my mother land, proud of India … land of Spirituality, Yoga , Ayurveda,Jai Hind

崇洋媚外，没有哪个国家比我的祖国更好，我为印度感到骄傲，灵性、瑜伽、阿育吠陀等等，印度必胜！

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Please post this in Sanskrit... Why are you using a foreign language?

那请用梵文发评论，你为什么要用外语?

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People from every country, mainly from Muslim countries, have a goal to settle in the US to spread peace and submission. Yesterday only I read about more than six lakhs Afghanistani's waiting to move to US. God save US people

每个国家的人，主要是来自MSL国家的人，都有一个移居美国的目标，以传播和平与顺从。昨天我才看到一条消息，有60多万阿富汗人在等着搬到美国。上帝保佑美国人民！

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It's upto the Christians to protect their turf.

基督徒要保护好自己的地盘。

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In fact US should become less attractive for brainy Indians.,Our country pays huge money to build IIT and IIMs and after graduation from these prime institutes , youngsters go abroad for earning big money. We have cultivated zero patriotism at the top level brainy children. What use is this?

事实上，美国对聪明的印度人的吸引力应该下降了。我们国家斥巨资建设印度理工学院和印度管理学院，从这些一流学院毕业后，年轻人出国赚大钱。我们培养了顶级聪明的孩子，但一点都不爱国，这有什么用?

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H1B is a NON-IMMIGRANT visa. Do the guys who go on H1B understand what that means? The USA is not our birthright country. We follow their immigration rules in their country.

H1B是一种非移民签证。那些持H1B签证的人明白这是什么意思吗？美国不是我们的祖国，我们在他们国家要遵守他们的移民规定。

Prasanna Kumar

Indian try to change and bend rules everywhere they go. In fact as we speak they could be lobbying behind Ramaswamy to bend the rules for them.

印度人不管到哪里，都试图改变和歪曲规则。事实上，就在我们说话的时候，他们可能正在拉马斯瓦米背后游说，为他们变通规则。

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waiting for visa to waiting for green card, what a wonderful waiting dilemmas. here every Indian is waiting for some thing either employment, food any thing. US is not heaven they will understand after sometime.

从等待签证到等待绿卡，多么美妙的等待啊。每个印度人都在等待一些东西，要么是工作，要么是食物。美国不是天堂，过一段时间他们会明白的。

Ravi Kale

Then there are mumbo jumbo options like to acquire citizenship of smaller island countries which offer citizenship on investment. After acquiring citizenship of let's say 'Dominican Republic', it will be easier to get Green card under 7% qota of that country. Then there are other options.... on and on... after all we are Jugaadu. Where there is a will there is a way.

然后还有一些荒谬的选择，比如获得小岛屿国家的公民身份，如果去投资，这些国家提供公民身份。在获得多米尼加共和国的公民身份后，在该国7%的配额下获得绿卡会更容易。还有其他选择....等等……毕竟我们是Jugaadu，有志者事竟成。

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country cap is by country of birth and not citizenship.

国家配额上限是根据出生国家而不是国籍。

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does not work that way, the quota is by country of birth and not citizenship. country of birth never changes irrespective of which country gives you citizenship.

不是这样的，配额是根据出生国而不是国籍。无论你是哪个国家的公民，出生国都不会变。

Vijay Sakalkar

great injustice is being done to Indian,Indian contribute so much to Total development of USA but green card quota green card has not being increased in that proportion.USA must look into this and correct the anamoly.

印度人受到了严重不公正的待遇，印度人为美国的整体发展做出了巨大贡献，但绿卡配额却没有相应增加。美国必须调查并纠正这种反常现象。

Ravi Kale

Any child born to foreign nationals in US automatically get US citizenship. Now, if not by birth and the child grows up in US until teenage, he/she could still avail the admissions to any prestigious Indian colleges under NRI quota and then go back to US after completion of their higher education on H1B for a job in US. Now that does not sound that bad is it? After all life is not interesting without challenges.

任何在美国出生的外国人的孩子都会自动获得美国公民身份。现在，如果不是在美国出生，孩子在美国长大，直到十几岁，他/她仍然可以利用海外印度裔的配额进入任何著名的印度大学，然后在完成高等教育后回到美国，在美国找工作。听起来没那么糟吧？毕竟，没有挑战的生活是无趣的。

Prasanna Kumar

NRIs don't want challenges. They want everything on silver platter for themselves. But they sit abroad and advice Indians on how great the Indian Govt is doing.

海外印度裔不喜欢挑战。他们想把所有的东西都放在银盘子里。虽然他们在国外，但他们向印度人提供建议，说印度政府做得有多好。

Alko

This is all intentional from USA so that they can continue to earn millions of USD from application fees and then appeals... SCAM..

美国故意的，这样他们就可以继续从申请费中赚取数百万美元，这是诈骗

Blake Carrington

A good patriotic Indian would move to US to study, work hard to get H1 B, work harder for green card , and then strive harder to get citizenship so that he can say how patriotic Indian he is and how good change modi has brought in India.

一个优秀的、爱国的印度人去美国学习，努力工作获得H1 - B签证，努力工作获得绿卡，然后更加努力地获得公民身份，之后他就可以说他是多么爱国的印度人，莫迪给印度带来了多么好的改变。

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Your forefathers came to US from Europe, killed the native Americans there and then became patriotic. Right?

你们的祖先从欧洲来到美国，杀死了那里的印第安人，然后变得爱国，对吧?

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it is not that US is a heaven but India population is a problem. had there been 25% people less India would have been much better. this will not happen in my life time at least.

并不是说美国是天堂，而是印度人口是个问题。如果人口少25%，印度会好得多，但这事至少不会在我的有生之年发生。

Himanshu Soni

US schools are the most dangerous schools in the world,It’s a green card to heaven

美国的学校是世界上最危险的学校，是通往天堂的绿卡。