Many of the firms that lobbied for more temporary visas are now firing these workers, leaving them with 60 days to find a new job or leave the country
. Advocates estimate that some 30,000 or more foreign-born workers on temporary visas are among those who’ve gotten fired.
No individual country is allowed to receive more than 7 percent of the roughly 140,000 green card visas issued annually. For high-skilled immigrants from most countries, there are plenty to go around and the wait to apply is relatively short. But for immigrants from India and to a lesser-extent China — which sends the second-most high-tech workers to the United States — the wait can stretch for decades.
“There’s a lot of anxiety and a lot of stress currently within the community," said Aman Kapoor, head of Immigration Voice, which has been pushing Congress — unsuccessfully — to eliminate the per-country cap on green card applications. “With the endless backlogs and people in this dynamic where the situation changes so quickly, it’s a very, very stressful environment.
Congress has tried and failed repeatedly in recent years to pass reforms to the nation’s immigration system, which lawmakers of both major parties say is broken even if they can’t agree on how to fix it. Comprehensive legislation has seemed politically untenable since the last major attempt failed a decade ago. There is
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