The new government fiscal year which starts on October 1, 2021 will be the best year ever for employment-based immigration.
Generally, 140,000 persons annually are able to get green cards through employment-based immigration. However, in the coming fiscal year, the number will more than double to over 290,000.
Why?
Because of the pandemic, U.S. Embassies abroad have been mostly closed, and this has prevented well over 150,000 relatives of U.S. citizens and green card holders from getting green card interviews. Our immigration laws provide that if the family-based quota of 226,000 is not reached, the unused numbers are transferred to the employment-based categories during the next fiscal year.
Doubling Employment-Based Immigration - Who Benefits?
U.S. employers sponsor may thousands of computer programmers and health care professionals for green cards each year.
Here is a simple example of how U.S. employers will benefit when employment-based immigration numbers more than double on October 1, 2021.
Hospitals across the United States are suffering from a huge shortage of doctors, nurses and other allied healthcare professionals.