NEW DELHI: Young, wealthy, discuss English and know your municipality's bye-laws? Well, then the land of the unfastened, the United States, beckons you as President Donald Trump, on the advice of his son-in-law Jared Kushner, proposed a brand new immigration policy known as the Build America visa to replace the green card visa for permanent residency.
The key takeaways
The skills-based visa will prioritise migrants based on schooling, English-language talent and high-paying process offers as in opposition to the present diversity-visa lottery.
Read also: Donald Trump proposes to replace inexperienced card with 'Build America' visa
What it offers
As in keeping with the proposed policy, the younger you are, the extra points you accrue; extra qualified you are, extra points; extra you earn or are ready to toughen yourself financially, extra points. Additionally and very importantly, all such wannabe migrants should move a civics examination before they are granted permanent residency. Under the present machine, 66% of the green card visas were given to those who had a relative in the USA, whilst some other 21% have been selected by the use of a random lottery. The proposed policy will grant 57% of the permanent residency visas to extremely skilled employees — who lately get just a 12% share.
Will Indians get advantages?
That's the general consensus, for the reason that the brand new policy will favour techies and entrepreneurs as also other extremely skilled employees for whom the present ready period to procure a inexperienced card could be 10 years or extra. For Trump, it is helping him win the toughen of low-wage or blue collar American employees as they'll face less competition from migrants, thus making the proposal a rallying cry as he heads for the re-election in 2020.
Read also: Donald Trump's immigration plan may benefit Indians
Where else?
Trump cited the examples of Canada and Australia to again his proposal. Canada, which offers residency to about 200,000 immigrants and refugees a yr, assigns the perfect share to financial criteria, followed by way of family reunification and refugees. It has also tightened loopholes reminiscent of marriages of comfort by way of making it obligatory for the sponsor to financially toughen the partner for 3 years despite the fact that the marriage fails. Between 1989-2018, Canada allowed in simplest five million immigrants, as in opposition to the 1.1 million inexperienced cards the USA problems yearly — a figure that will stay unchanged even below the brand new policy.
The key takeaways
The skills-based visa will prioritise migrants based on schooling, English-language talent and high-paying process offers as in opposition to the present diversity-visa lottery.
Read also: Donald Trump proposes to replace inexperienced card with 'Build America' visa
What it offers
As in keeping with the proposed policy, the younger you are, the extra points you accrue; extra qualified you are, extra points; extra you earn or are ready to toughen yourself financially, extra points. Additionally and very importantly, all such wannabe migrants should move a civics examination before they are granted permanent residency. Under the present machine, 66% of the green card visas were given to those who had a relative in the USA, whilst some other 21% have been selected by the use of a random lottery. The proposed policy will grant 57% of the permanent residency visas to extremely skilled employees — who lately get just a 12% share.
Will Indians get advantages?
That's the general consensus, for the reason that the brand new policy will favour techies and entrepreneurs as also other extremely skilled employees for whom the present ready period to procure a inexperienced card could be 10 years or extra. For Trump, it is helping him win the toughen of low-wage or blue collar American employees as they'll face less competition from migrants, thus making the proposal a rallying cry as he heads for the re-election in 2020.
Read also: Donald Trump's immigration plan may benefit Indians
Where else?
Trump cited the examples of Canada and Australia to again his proposal. Canada, which offers residency to about 200,000 immigrants and refugees a yr, assigns the perfect share to financial criteria, followed by way of family reunification and refugees. It has also tightened loopholes reminiscent of marriages of comfort by way of making it obligatory for the sponsor to financially toughen the partner for 3 years despite the fact that the marriage fails. Between 1989-2018, Canada allowed in simplest five million immigrants, as in opposition to the 1.1 million inexperienced cards the USA problems yearly — a figure that will stay unchanged even below the brand new policy.
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