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Senator Roger Marshall Advocates for Green Card Reform<\/strong><\/p>\n Kansas Republican Senator Roger Marshall has announced his commitment to eliminating country-based limits on U.S. green cards. Speaking to a large audience of Indian Americans, he expressed that the current immigration system is fundamentally unfair.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are informing the world’s hardest-working immigrants that the wait time is 70 years. This isn\u2019t due to their actions, but simply because so many are coming from the same place,\u201d Marshall said.<\/p>\n On May 26, 2026, the U.S. Department of State confirmed that all available Employment-Based Second Preference (EB-2) immigrant visas for Indian nationals for the fiscal year 2026 have been filled. This means that no new EB-2 green cards can be issued to Indian applicants until October 1, 2026.<\/p>\n Under the Immigration and Nationality Act, the U.S. issues around 140,000 employment-based green cards each year. This limit was established in 1990 and has not changed since. The law restricts any single country to receiving no more than 7% of these green cards annually\u2014approximately 9,800 for India\u2014regardless of the demand.<\/p>\n While this rule applies to all countries, its impact is felt most acutely by Indian applicants. According to a report from WorkVisa Guide, India accounts for more than half of the demand for employment-based visas in the U.S., yet it receives the same number of green cards as Liechtenstein, which has a population of just 39,000.<\/p>\n As of June 2026, the EB-2 India Final Action Date was set at September 1, 2013. The Department of Homeland Security has stated that due to the exhausting of the annual allotment, no EB-2 visas will be issued to Indian applicants for the remainder of the fiscal year.<\/p>\n Marshall’s recent comments highlight a long-overdue legislative effort. His public stance reflects increasing bipartisan concern over the existing system.<\/p>\n Currently, the green card backlog is the largest nationality-based queue in U.S. immigration, with approximately 700,000 Indians caught in it, as noted in a 2021 study. The high demand is evident as the EB-2 visas were exhausted in May this year, well before the fiscal year ends on September 30.<\/p>\n Though there is hope that the situation may improve after the new fiscal year starts in October, there is no guarantee of progress for those waiting in line.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Senator Roger Marshall Advocates for Green Card Reform Kansas Republican Senator Roger Marshall has announced his commitment to eliminating country-based limits on U.S. green cards. Speaking to a large audience of Indian Americans, he expressed that the current immigration system is fundamentally unfair. \u201cWe are informing the world’s hardest-working immigrants that the wait time is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[47148,47147,47149,47151,47150],"class_list":["post-35746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-india-news","tag-country-cap-green-card-reform","tag-green-card-backlog","tag-h-1b-to-green-card-wait-time","tag-roger-marshall","tag-roger-marshall-immigration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}System Set Up Decades Ago<\/h3>\n
A Growing Call for Change<\/h3>\n