Friday, February 2, 2018

Merit-Based Citizenship- Trump's Immigration Plan

The U.S. immigration system is making changes everyday just to protect thousands of immigrants and their rights. About a week ago, a bill was introduced just to boost the H-1B visa. With this introduction of bill hundreds to thousands of people can imagine to live in their dreamland that is in the United States of America. Now, Trump government has announced that the immigration will be based on the merit. That means people who are good in their academics and have a great record, have high chances of getting the citizenship. Moreover, he mentioned in his speech that their government is going to end the lottery based system. This proposal would be beneficial for the technical and skilled professionals who migrate from other countries.





The Trump explains that he is in favor to the immigrants who are skilled and have high merit. Trump introduced the four pillars of immigration reform that involves a pathway to citizenship for almost 1.8 million illegal immigrants, known as Dreamers. These Dreamers were basically brought by their parents or guardians, which was illegal. The US government is now going to limit the family-based migration.

The trump explained his second pillar that their government has a proposal to fully construct the wall between the Mexican and the US border. Many people oppose this decision and are still against this move. But now the ruling government has made it clear that they will remain stick to their decision. 

The third pillar would end America’s Green Card lottery, and replace it with a merit-based system for those who are skilled professionals, required in the US businesses. They want to hire best and the brightest people in the US.

Lastly, he introduced the fourth pillar- They are going to end the chain migration which allows migrants to bring in family members. This will ultimately protect the nuclear family

Given that there are hundreds and thousands of Indian IT professionals waiting in queue to get their green cards because of the current country quota, the relocation of diversity visa numbers to green cards is expected to hugely benefit them. It is also mentioned that immigrants from about eighteen countries are not eligible for diversity visa because these countries have sent more than 50,000 immigrants to the US over the last 5 years combined. These countries are Brazil, Canada, Bangladesh, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, the Philippines, Haiti, China, Colombia,  India,  South Korea, Jamaica, Mexico, the UK, and Vietnam. Want to know more about immigration processes? Consult Wildes & Weinberg, one of the best immigration firms in the city of New York.