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Country of Birth Quota for China and India to Be Eliminated

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Removing the per-country quota will have the biggest impact on second preference Indian and Chinese applicants who could see priority dates move forward several years.

 

HR 3012 The Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act, introduced by Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) and Lamar Smith (R-TX), passed the House of Representatives 389 to 15 on November 29, 2011. The bill would remove country of birth caps on employment-based immigrant visas with a special impact on Indian natives in the second preference category. Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) had been blocking the bill in the Senate, but on Wednesday July 11, 2012 he negotiated an amendment to the bill in exchange for lifting his hold.

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