THEIMMIGRANTS™

Nearly one million Indian nationals are trapped in the US employment-based green card backlog. New data puts the EB-2 wait at 179 years. Here is exactly why, who it affects, and what — if anything — is being done about it. In December 2019, Akhilesh Malavalli marched through downtown San Jose with dozens of other Indian tech workers, all of them holding approved green card petitions and no path to actually receive one. "We need to wait 150 years to get a green card," he told