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Sunday, March 15, 2026
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Topic: Green card

Trump decision on US birthright citizenship could make Indians rethink immigration plans

Indian immigrants have long used jus soli to become US citizens: those on temporary visas raised families while waiting for permanent residence. The order still has to face legal test.

Can Trump go through with his bid to end birthright citizenship & how move may impact immigrants

As of 2024, Indian Americans accounted for 1.47% of US population and at least two-thirds of the 5.4 million Indian Americans are immigrants, according to US government data.

Trump sows uncertainty with green card ban and hints at more

Trump’s decision will affect thousands of would-be immigrants seeking to move permanently to the US, and further delays a green card process.

US green card backlog touches 800,000, over 60% applicants are Indians

An Indian applying for the employment-based green card will have to wait for 50 years due to increased backlog and country quota limits.

Green Card country-cap bill faces Senate test after it is passed by US House of Reps

Lifting the per-country cap would mainly benefit professionals from countries like India, for whom the wait for Green Card is more than a decade.

Indians with advanced degree may have to wait 151 years for green card: Report

Report says 6,32,219 Indians in line for green cards. Blames the prolonged wait on per-country-limit, pegged at 7% for Indians.

Indian immigrants could end up waiting 70 years for Green Card

As of May, there were 395,025 people waiting for a Green Card under the employment-based preference category. Of these, an estimated 78% were Indians.

It is not right to penalise Indian H-1B workers who contribute to the US economy

Decisions should be taken within a six-year period for people who stay back for that long and are waiting for a green card.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.