“The number of Indians in queue for green cards is at a staggering 1.1 million; with most in EB-2 and EB-3 categories. A: As the agencies rebuild normal operations following the COVID-19 pandemic, fewer unused family-based immigrant visa numbers are carrying over to increase the number of available employment-based immigrant visas in FY 2024. In the years ahead, once there are no more unused family-based numbers, the annual number of available employment-based immigrant visas should return to 140,000. This limit, established by Congress more than three decades ago, is insufficient to meet the demand for employment-based immigrant visas in every category. We continue to emphasize that this imbalance needs to be addressed and that only Congress can alleviate the statutory constraint on immigrant visa numbers.

Source: Economic Times October 26, 2023 02:36 UTC