A new immigration reform bill is written to favor those who enter the U.S. with employment visas rather than family visas.<\/p>\n
A new Senate immigration reform bill is poised to shift the U.S. immigration system to better help those immigrants who enter the country with an employment-based visa. According a senior policy analyst with the Migration Policy Institute, the employment-based immigration caps placed on other countries would be eliminated. Currently, no country can send more than 7 percent of their total visa allotment within a one-year period to the U.S. The limit for each country has been set at 7 percent of the total visas; the other 97 percent have been allotted as family visas, but that figure would be raised to 15 percent. <\/p>\n
This limit has greatly hampered countries such as China and India who have large number of qualified immigrants, but who cannot get their U.S. visas because their country (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A new immigration reform bill is written to favor those who enter the U.S. with employment visas rather than family visas. A new Senate immigration reform bill is poised to shift the U.S. immigration system to better help those immigrants…<\/span><\/p>\n