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Congresswomen Grace Napolitano sponsored a private bill in Congress to halt the deportation of our clients Mr. and Mrs. Jay Desai.

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Comprehensive Immigration Reform (CIR) continues to be an issue that Congress refuses to tackle. The Senate passed a CIR bill in 2013, but the House of Representative refused to do so.

The Senate bill offered a pathway to citizenship for the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S., mandatory employment verification, border security, entry and exit systems, and visas for both low and high-skilled workers. While the bill was not perfect, many saw it as a step in the right direction for our immigration system and an important demonstration of cross-party cooperation.

Some of the more significant changes proposed in the bill were to the family-based (FB) and employment-based (EB) immigration systems. For both systems, one major step toward eliminating backlogs would have been to recapture unused visa numbers from 1992-2013 to be added to the numbers available for fiscal year 2015.

While the bill would have decreased the number of FB green cards available annually in the preference categories from 226,000 to 161,000, the immediate relative category would be expanded to include spouses and children of permanent residents. Also, for the first time, the bill would have permitted derivative beneficiaries of immediate relatives to immigrate along with the principal beneficiaries. New visa petitions for the F4 category for siblings of U.S. citizens would have been phased-out after 18 months. F3 numbers would have been limited to married sons and daughters of U.S. citizens 30 years old or younger. CSPA would have been amended to provide that aged-out beneficiaries would retain their priority dates. Per-country quotas would have been increased from 7% to 15%, further helping to reduce waiting times, especially for persons born in Mexico and the Philippines.

For the EB system, the bill would have eliminated the 7% per-country quotas, excellent news for high-skilled workers from India and China. It would also have eliminated quotas for spouses and children of EB workers, persons in the EB-1 categories, low-skilled workers in the EB-3 category, individuals with doctorate degrees, and STEM graduates. STEM graduates would also be eligible to apply for National Interest Waivers and to skip the PERM process. Another big change would have been the removal of the Diversity Visa Lottery, freeing up additional EB numbers.

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