U.S. Visa Waiting Lists Lead to Another Round of Exploitation
By David North on September 24, 2019
The middlemen in the EB-5 (immigrant investor) program are actively pursuing another set of clients in a way that throws new and unattractive light on America's visa waiting lists, a major by-product of our immigration policy.
No other major nation known to me sets up these lists — they either admit or deny admission and that's that. When we find that someone is qualified for a visa, but none are available because of long-established, congressionally mandated numerical limits, the alien is told to wait.
What the EB-5 agents have noticed is that there is a substantial class of would-be green card holders — already in the States — who are standing in a long line for these cards, and who have professional-level salaries. These are H-1Bs, largely from India. The average waiting time for Indian H-1Bs wanting to become green card holders is often estimated to be as long as 20 years. The EB-5 program offers visas for the investor and his or her spouse, and all the children under 21, if a correctly sized investment is made in a government-designated, but not insured, venture. It, too, has waiting lists.
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