Waiting time for employer-sponsored green cards rises

Waiting time for employer-sponsored green cards rises

Highlights

• By paying a $2,500 fee, employers can cut down the waiting time to get a green card from 3 years to 2 years and five months.
• The response time for obtaining green cards is 15 days if the applicant pays a $2,500 fee.
• The wage determination wait time is 182 days in 2022.

New waiting times for employer-sponsored green cards

The employers can now pay a $2,500 fee instead of $700, the usual processing fee, in order to get the response in just 15 days. The processing duration was decreased in 2016 from 1.9 years to 1.6 years, as long as they pay the premium amount of $2,500.

 

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In 2022, the processing time for employer-sponsored green cards has crossed a three-year wait time. Paying the processing fee of $2,500 will reduce the wait time to seven months, which means it comes down to 2 years and five months.

 

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The US government made the average processing time for a green card 16 months in the US. During the years 2021 and 2022, a year more is added for processing time. Employees availing of employer sponsorship need to pass through six phases, including a prefiling stage which requires the employer and the applicant to furnish the necessary documents to assess their eligibility for a green card.

 

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This process follows the evaluation of current wages, area code, skill level, etc., by the Department of Labor. The wage determination wait time is now 182 days in 2022 from 76 days in 2016. The current process is leading to enormous processing backlogs in the employer-sponsored immigration system. This results in a backlog of workers waiting for their spots to be available. These delays and wait times might affect America’s performance in the global competition for talent as many other countries worldwide provide green cards in a few weeks or months but not years.

 

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