Four years ago, I wrote about the "Line" that determines how long it takes to immigrate to the United States. The "line" was long then, and is longer now, with more than four million people waiting for an immigrant visa to become ready for them to immigrate to the United States. There is a good number of these more than four million people already in the United States, either working under valid visas, or as undocumented members of our society. An example is appropriate We know from a recent meeting with the Department of States that there are approximately 44,000 EB-3 India cases with priority dates prior to August 2007. Right now, the priority date (the date people who filed on that date can now apply for permanent residence) for India is November 22, 2002. Available visas count both the principal applicant (the person who's job it is), PLUS each family member. Hypothetically and because of "per-country limits," that means that if ...
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