US presidential advisory panel member recommends recapture of unused green cards for family, employment categories from 1992-2025
Washington, Jul 7 (PTI) In a move that could benefit thousands of Indian-Americans waiting for their green cards, a member of the President's Advisory Commission on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders has recommended that all unused green cards for family and employment categories since 1992 be recaptured.
This includes the recapture of more than 2,30,000 unused employment-based green cards from 1992 to 2022 and processing a portion of these every fiscal year in addition to the annual limit of 1,40,000 for this category, Indian-American Ajay Bhutoria said in his set of recommendations submitted before the commission on Thursday.
"Recapture Unused Green Cards and Prevent Future Green Card Waste" aims to address bureaucratic delays in the green card application process and provide relief to individuals waiting in backlogs, he said.
