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An influential American lawmaker has advocated that the US Congress remove the seven per cent country quota for issuing of Green Cards that has resulted in decades of long wait for professionals from India who have moved to this country
“It’s so important that Indians are able to immigrate to the US when they’re looking for jobs because the US depends on high quality, high skilled, very smart people coming from all over the world to work here. It’s one of the natural advantages of the United States that we welcome people from all over the world,” Congressman Matt Cartwright.
Cartwright, who represents the 8th Congressional District of Pennsylvania, is supporting the move by Indian American organisations, including the Foundation for India and Indian Diaspora (FIIDS) for removing the per country seven per cent quota in issuing Green Cards every year.
“The problem is that we have limited this to seven per cent from every country, and that disproportionately hurts big nations like India. There’s so many highly educated people in India, and it’s a resource that the United States would be foolish, foolhardy not to take full advantage of the people who want to come to this country and become part of our economy and become part of our brain trust in this nation,” Cartwright said.
He pointed out that the United States of America has always welcomed people of high intellect and high ethical standards and work standards to come here and invigorate our economy.
“That’s been part of a tradition in the United States for a couple of hundred years, and so to cut ourselves off with this arbitrary seven per cent number, that’s a mistake, and that’s why I’m proud to be part of the effort to do away with that,” he said.
