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Skilled Indians have a 90 year wait for green cards

Indian IT professionals, most of whom are highly skilled and come to the US mainly on the H-1B work visas, are the worst sufferers of the current immigration system which imposes a seven per cent per country quota on allotment of the coveted Green Card.

More than 2 lakh Indians who are mired in this backlog are likely to die before they can conceivably receive a green card (absent a change in the law).