The US visa threat to Indians, feverishly flagged as soon as Donald Trump won the presidential elections, seems to be inching frighteningly close towards reality. Pretty soon, it may become even more difficult, almost impossible, for Indians and others to get immigrant visas to Trumpland if a proposal made by two US senators and endorsed and supported by the president is passed by the US Congress.
The Reforming American Immigration for Strong Employment (RAISE) Act, proposed in February this year and revised earlier this month by Senators Tom Cotton and David Perdue, is designed to significantly reduce the number of immigrants who can obtain green cards and other visas to the US. The Act aims to reduce the number of legal migrants allowed in the US by 40 per cent in the first year and by 50 per cent over a decade. The bill aims to reduce the number of immigrants to 6,37,960 in its first year and to 5,39, 958 by its tenth year, from 10,51,031 in 2015. If passed, the bill would radically transform the US immigration landscape. It would remove the...
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