New Delhi: With President Donald Trump hitting hard on the immigration policy of the United States to stop illegal immigration and remove legal paths to reside and work in the country, a look at the key immigration programs in the US.
United States have four main permanent residency programs
Refugee Admissions
Refugee admissions dipped in 2018 from 53,716 in 2017 and 84,995 in 2016 after an admission cap. For 2019, the cap has been set at 30,000, the lowest since the programme was created in 1980.
Family Based Immigration
The program enables someone to get a green card on the off chance that they as of now have a life partner, kid, kin or parent living in the nation with US citizenship or, at times, a green card
Employment Based Green Card
Trump's proposed pointsbased framework would expand the quantity of green cards conceded for specific abilities. The new framework would dispense with green cards for migrants putting resources into US ventures.
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Diversity Visas
The lottery program distributes 50,000 green cards every year to individuals from countries underrepresented in the immigration population. Trump has said he needs to take out the program. Natives of nations with the most landings — Mexico, Canada, China and India — are not qualified.
Employee Visa tough to crack
The H-1B program honors high-skilled remote laborers with visas. It's the US' greatest transitory work visa program, representing about a fourth of all brief business visas issued in 2017. The forswearing rate of H-1B visa applications expanded in 2019 under the Trump organization. More H-1B visas went to foreigners with a US graduate degree or higher.
Court Case keeps vulnerable migrants in midpoint
A few migrants, war hero or different emergencies, have gotten transitory authorization to remain in the US. In any case, Trump contradicts these projects and his endeavors to destroy are as of now being tested in court.
Temporary Protected Status
About 3,20,000 immigrants from 10 nations can live and work in the US under TPS because of war or natural disasters in their home countries.