Congress Poised to Take Up Green Card Backlog Issue Again (1)

Congress is taking another go at legislation to reduce green card wait times for skilled Indian immigrants as the deadline nears to reach a broader immigration deal and avoid another government shutdown.

Reps. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) and Ken Buck (R-Colo.) plan to reintroduce legislation Feb. 7 that would eliminate per-country caps on employment-based green cards. The bill would reignite a measure that gained 329 co-sponsors in the House in the last Congress, but never came up for a vote.

The prior version of the bill was supported by tech giants such as Microsoft Corp., Amazon Inc., and IBM Corp., which ...