Green Cards likely to come up for discussion in US budget
Tue, 01 Nov 2005 10:16:32 GMT
The US Senate is likely to debate permanent residentship to thousands of immigrants from countries like India and China, as the annual budget comes up for discussion on Monday. A political floor fight is expected over the budget package that has provisions to make available thousands of Green Cards for new permanent immigrants. The measures envisage to get back - or "recapture" - some 90,000 unused employment-based immigration visas and would exclude family members from the overall cap, which is currently set at 140,000.