Indian talent moving to Canada due to outdated H-1B visa policy, U.S lawmakers told.

U.S lawmakers have said that indian talents are moving to Canada instead of the United States because of its outdated H-1B visa policy, immigration . This is mainly because of the per-country quota on issuing employment -based green cards or permanent residency, the experts said on Tuesday, urging the congress to act to prevent the Indian talent from moving to Canada from the United States. 

Without congressional action, the total backlog for all three employment-based categories for Indian would increase from an estimated 9,15,297 individuals currently to an estimated 21,95,795 individuals by fiscal 2030, executive director of National Foundation for American Policy Stuart Anderson said. 

“We should let that number sink in : within a decade, more than 2 million people will be waiting in line for years or even decades for employment-based green cards,” he submitted in his testimony before the House Judiciary Committee-Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship.