Immigration Voice welcomes rules allowing immigrants’ spouses to work and calls for further administrative action to reduce backlogs.
“Today’s administrative action brings welcome relief to spouses of those employment-based immigrants caught in the green card backlog,” said Pratik Dakwala, Co-Founder and Vice President of Immigration Voice. “So many of these spouses are themselves highly-skilled and have so much to contribute to America. Until now, they have been forced to spend many of their most productive years locked out of the workforce as they and their families await their green cards.”
“This is certainly a step in the right direction,” said Immigration Voice Vice President Dheeraj Kohli. “The real solution is to fix the decades-long backlogs that continue to trap hundreds of thousands of employment-based immigrants and their families in a state of limbo. We hope that the Administration will follow today’s action with concrete steps to reduce the green card backlogs, allowing all legal immigrants to contribute the full measure of their talents to the U.S. economy.”
~ Excerpt from Immigration Voice Press Release
