Re:USCIS to End Work Permits for Spouses of H-1B Visa Holder...
by dragonwriter on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @06:39PM
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> In most cases, if your application for permanent residency is approved, then you just immediately become a permanent resident and you and your spouse have the right to work regardless.
That's less than true, because:
> The exception is if you come from China or India, where the number of immigrants have hit the statutory caps, and there is a waiting time (currently between 6 and 10 years, depending on the type of green card application [2]).
From your own source, China, India, the Phillipines, Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras all have delays in certain categories (and Vietnam is expected to starting next month), actually, and the waiting times are between <1 and 24 years. (And that's actually a backward looking waiting time, so when you say a particular category is a 10 year waiting time, that actually means it was a 10 year waiting time for people applying 10 years ago, but the countries where applicants outnumber slots are fairly consistent, so those waiting times tend to get longer over time.)
Also, because the per country cap is generally the same for all countries in each category, the onss with backlogs are also the ones with the highest number of applicants, so what is true of most countries (an applicant from that country will not face a delay) is less valid a generalization when it comes to most applicants.
That's less than true, because:
> The exception is if you come from China or India, where the number of immigrants have hit the statutory caps, and there is a waiting time (currently between 6 and 10 years, depending on the type of green card application [2]).
From your own source, China, India, the Phillipines, Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras all have delays in certain categories (and Vietnam is expected to starting next month), actually, and the waiting times are between <1 and 24 years. (And that's actually a backward looking waiting time, so when you say a particular category is a 10 year waiting time, that actually means it was a 10 year waiting time for people applying 10 years ago, but the countries where applicants outnumber slots are fairly consistent, so those waiting times tend to get longer over time.)
Also, because the per country cap is generally the same for all countries in each category, the onss with backlogs are also the ones with the highest number of applicants, so what is true of most countries (an applicant from that country will not face a delay) is less valid a generalization when it comes to most applicants.