Indian-American frontline healthcare professionals in Green Card backlog hold protest at US Capitol

A group of frontline Indian-American healthcare professionals, stuck in the 150-plus-year Green Card backlog, held a demonstration in front of the Capitol urging the US lawmakers to pass legislation to end the quota for legal permanent residency in the country,

Urging American lawmakers to pass a legislation that ends the archaic per country quota for legal permanent residency in the US, a group of frontline Indian-American healthcare professionals, stuck in the 150-plus-year Green Card backlog, held a peaceful demonstration in front of the Capitol. @POTUS please end the green card backlog for frontline healthcare workers by allowing USCIS to use wasted green cards from the past years @VP @SenAlexPadilla @SenatorDurbin @RepLindaSanchez @SenKevinCramer @lalitkjha @wadhwa @TheH1BGuy pic.twitter.com/Z99276FoOs A Green Card, known officially as a Permanent Resident Card, is a document issued to immigrants to the US as evidence that the bearer has been granted the privilege of residing permanently in the country. In a joint statement on Monday, the Indian-American doctors said that they are in a 150-plus-year Green Card backlog due to archaic country caps that allows no nation to get more than seven per cent of employment-based green cards.