Indian-American healthcare workers in Green Card backlog hold demonstration before US Capitol

A group of Indian-American frontline healthcare workers languishing in the Green Card backlog held a demonstration in front of the U.S. Capitol urging lawmakers and the Joe Biden administration to end the per capita country-specific quota.

A Green Card, known officially as a Permanent Resident Card, is a document issued to immigrants to the U.S. as evidence that the bearer has been granted the privilege of residing permanently in the country.

Indian IT professionals, most of whom are highly skilled and come to the U.S. mainly on the H-1B work visas, are the worst sufferers of the current immigration system which imposes a 7% per country quota on allotment of the coveted Green Card or permanent legal residency.