We’ve been fighting against the bill to remove country-cap quotas for employment-based Green Cards for years. Each time it resurfaces in Congress, it faces a major defeat because policymakers realize it would wreck the legal immigration system.

If the country caps are removed, Green Cards would be granted based on wait times, rewarding those who’ve waited the longest (primarily Indians) at the expense of other nationalities, including new Indian applicants. While proponents claim this bill reduce long wait times for Indians, it would actually create even longer delays for everyone else.

So, when DOGE asked for policy priorities, Sriram responded that removing country cap quotas is the most important issue. Given the abuse of the H-1B visa system from India, it’s disheartening to see someone appointed in a Trump administration, especially when Trump’s own administration during his first term was against policy, to push this while not speaking up about the abuses of the program that created this mess in the first place.

Hope this clears things up.