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The Trump administration’s latest changes to Green Card and migration procedures person triggered anxiousness and uncertainty among thousands of Indian professionals and students surviving successful the United States, including galore families from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.
The caller policy, introduced done a memo issued by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), requires astir non-immigrants, including impermanent workers and students, to permission the U.S. and use for imperishable residency done consular processing successful their location countries alternatively of adjusting their presumption wrong America.
For galore Indian bundle professionals already grappling with decades-long Green Card backlogs, the improvement has travel arsenic a large affectional setback.
“I abruptly consciousness unsure astir the aboriginal I had cautiously planned,” says Maddela Srinivasulu, a bundle technologist from Kadapa present surviving successful California. Mr. Srinivasulu moved to the U.S. successful 2016 and filed for a Green Card successful January 2018. His I-140 petition was approved successful September that year, placing him successful the 2nd signifier of the three-step employment-based Green Card process.
After spending astir a decennary successful the state connected an H-1B visa, Mr. Srinivasulu says the tightening of migration rules has near him profoundly disquieted astir the aboriginal of his family. His woman and 2 children are babelike connected H-4 visas.
“This caller instrumentality has shocked and shattered me. Things are intelligibly going downhill. I person fixed immoderate of the champion years of my beingness to this country, contributing to its system arsenic a taxpayer. Now, I consciousness utilized and cheated,” helium says, adding that stricter migration policies are creating fearfulness among Indian professionals who person spent years gathering careers and contributing to the American economy. “By bringing successful stricter migration rules, the U.S. wants to support america distant from this land,” helium adds.
The anxiousness is not constricted to moving professionals alone. Parents successful Andhra Pradesh who invested heavy successful their children’s acquisition overseas are besides disquieted astir the future.
Bulusu Janardhan from Andhra Pradesh says helium regrets encouraging his lone lad to prosecute higher acquisition successful the U.S. Like galore middle-class families, helium had taken loans successful the anticipation that his son’s overseas acquisition would yet assistance amended the family’s fiscal condition.
“I thought sending my lad to the U.S. would assistance him go financially autarkic and besides assistance america wide the debts we accumulated for his education. But the concern present is frightening,” helium says.
Mr. Janardhan says his lad endured respective hardships to implicit his studies, lone to look uncertainty implicit employment and migration prospects. “The U.S. has been ruthless towards planetary students lately. Despite each the hardships, my lad completed his people and had conscionable started reasoning astir employment erstwhile this quality came,” helium says.
However, not everyone believes the caller rules volition drastically change the concern immediately. Maddela Ramakrishna, different bundle nonrecreational from Kadapa based successful California, says Indian nationals already look agelong employment-based Green Card hold times due to the fact that of per-country caps.
“EB-2 and EB-3 queues for Indians often agelong to 15 to 20 years oregon more, with immoderate estimates projecting hold times of implicit a period for caller applicants,” helium says, adding that Indian professionals person agelong been accustomed to uncertainty successful the migration system.
Meanwhile, Vemuri Ravi Kumar, Chairman of the AP Non-Resident Telugu Society (APNRTS), says the organisation is intimately monitoring the developments. According to him, of the estimated 40 lakh Non-Resident Telugus worldwide, astir 8 lakh unrecorded successful the United States.
“The caller instrumentality whitethorn not person overmuch interaction connected existing applicants. We are waiting for greater clarity,” helium says, adding that respective companies apt to beryllium affected are preparing ineligible challenges against the argumentation successful U.S. courts.
