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GREEN CARD REGULATIONS

Aug. 15, 2019

The US government announced that it would make green card regulations more stringent, a move that will impact applicants from around the world, including from India.

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  • According to the ‘2017 Yearbook of Immigration Statistics’, by the US Department of Homeland Security, India-born immigrants in the US got the fourth highest number of green cards in 2017.

  • Indians were behind applicants from Mexico, China, and Cuba in terms of number of green cards (lawful permanent resident status) obtained in 2017.

  • In 2017, 60,394 persons born in India obtained permanent resident status.
    • Of this, a third (20,549) were immediate relatives of US citizens, a fourth (14,962) were family sponsored, and over a third (23,569) were employed in the US.

    • The remainder were given this status under the Diversity Immigrant Visa, refugee, asylee and other categories.



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