Additionally, Amith indicated that .USCIS may very well waste upwards of 150,000 employment green cards this year. This is extremely unfortunate while 1.2 million high skilled immigrants are in #GCbacklog We urge .Director, USCIS to employ any means possible to #StopGCwastage

We are immensely grateful to Hon'ble .Rep. Zoe Lofgren who couldn't make it, but provided a statement of support & have faith that under her leadership, issues that plague skilled legal immigrant community will be resolved including root cause of discriminatory country caps #HR3648

Sincere gratitude to Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi Congresswoman Kathy Manning & Congresswoman Deborah Ross for leading delegation letter urging Democrats leadership Nancy Pelosi & Chuck Schumer to include relief for skilled legal immigrants in reconciliation. Many thanks to our volunteers for calling their reps.

I led 40 Members of Congress in a letter to Congressional leadership calling for an end to the arbitrary country cap on employment-based green cards. There are 1.2 million people stuck in this backlog waiting to contribute GREATLY to our economy. krishnamoorthi.house.gov/media/press-re…

On #LaborDay let's remind that more than 100,000 immigrant #WomenForcedToQuit labor force due to .USCIS bureacratic inefficiencies causing unprecedented #H4EADdelays This, on top of being discriminated by per-country caps that prioritize country of birth over skills #HR3648

After pushing for this, I’m encouraged that the House Judiciary Committee included reform for the employment-based green card backlog in their portion of the Build Back Better Act. This will help CLEAR the 1.2 MILLION backlog & improve our economy. krishnamoorthi.house.gov/media/press-re…

Full recapture of wasted green cards since 1992 – a provision that I successfully fought for in the House Judiciary Committee’s portion of the Build Back Better Act – would result in an added $1 trillion to GDP over the next 10 years. 1 TRILLION DOLLARS! niskanencenter.org/recapturing-un…

While we rally behind inclusion of 60002-4 in Senate recon bill, we continue to highlight impact of national origin discrimination on Indian immigrants. We met .Jahana Hayes staff to discuss #H4EADdelays & requested her leadership for CT delegation cosponsorship of #HR3648

The Senate parliamentarian blocked a path to including revenue raising immigration reform in reconciliation. Now the Senate must find another way to include these vital reforms to clear the H1B backlog and increase government revenue by $463 billion. krishnamoorthi.house.gov/media/press-re…

Today our volunteers met with .Doug Rand, Senior advisor to .Director, USCIS to discuss about #H4EADdelays & #GCwastage We are grateful for the positive discussions on these critical issues impacting high skilled immigrants in decades long #GCbacklog

We have long advocated to protect, preserve & strengthen right of immigrant women to work. We whole heartedly support this effort to draw attention to the urgent need for immigration reform & encourage our volunteers #H4EAD #GCBacklog to participate in the #DayWithoutImmigrants

We stand in solidarity with thousands of immigrants today participating in #DayWithoutImmigrants to highlight the broken immigration system that has kept millions trapped with limited rights & unrealized potential. 1/5

On the employment immigration side, its a double whammy for immigrant women of color - decades long #GCbacklog due to discriminatory per-country caps, followed by bureacratic inefficiencies leading to massive #GCwastage and #H4EADdelays Lets hear from few immigrant women👇 2/5

Hear from Payal 👇 #GCbacklog #H4EADdelays #DayWithoutImmigrants 3/5

Hear from Sushama 👇 #GCbacklog #H4EADdelays #DayWithoutImmigrants 4/5

Hear from Vineetha 👇 #GCbacklog #H4EADdelays #DayWithoutImmigrants 5/5

Director, USCIS USCIS It's been a year since #WomenForcedToQuit marched in #WomensHistoryMonth to highlight #H4EADdelays & #GCbacklog due to national origin discrimination. So far nothing substantial has changed. #EADdelays & #GCwastage continue unabated. Lot more can be & should be done immediately.

We applaud the scheduled markup of EAGLE Act #HR3648 and request our volunteers to call their members of congress in House Judiciary Dems House Judiciary GOP 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 to request support for the passage of the bill. Its long past due to remove discriminatory per-country caps.

Our heartfelt gratitude to Rep. Zoe Lofgren for her leadership to remove discriminatory per-country caps and make our immigration system fair & equitable through #HR3648 May this be the year!

We are grateful to Rep. Carolyn Bourdeaux & Rep. María Elvira Salazar for introducing common sense bipartisan legislation #HR7442 to protect, strengthen & simplify work authorization for H4 spouses. We also urge support to pass #HR3648 to address root cause of #GCbacklog bourdeaux.house.gov/2022/04/07/con…