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Post Number: 20826
Registered: 03-2004
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The Coming Disaster in Employment-Based Immigration
Family-based immigration is only for the very patient. Waiting times range between 4 and 22 years. The only exception is for the large and
growing number of immediate relatives (spouses, children and parents -
if the U.S. citizen child is 21 years or older - of U.S. citizens). Immediate relatives are exempt from numerical quotas and can often immigrate to the U.S. in a matter of months.
If you are not an immediate relative of a U.S. citizen or are not fortunate enough to win the annual green card lottery, the only viable
route to permanent residence is through the employment-based categories.
However, the employment-based option is becoming less attractive each month. In January 2005, the waiting times for persons born in India, China or the Philippines seeking to immigrate through the employment-based third preference category (EB-3) as professionals and skilled workers retrogressed from no wait time to three years literally overnight.
A couple of months later, the waiting times for unskilled workers went from zero to four years, also overnight. Soon, this category will
become completely unavailable.
Recently, the State Department predicted that the EB-2 category (persons with advanced degrees or of exceptional ability), and possibly the EB-1
category (persons of extraordinary ability, outstanding researchers and professors and multinational executives and managers) for persons born in India and China would backlog within the next fiscal year.
Waiting times for the employment categories are going to continue to get longer and longer. Why?
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