Filipinos wait 22 years to get Green Card
Well written detailed account by a Filipino News source…Why it takes forever to get a US Visa?
Except for spouses, parents and minor children of US citizens, all other petitions are subject to numerical limit. The Immigration Act of 1965 established the first-come, first-served basis of issuing visas, and set the numerical limitations on the number of visas that may be issued each year.
1965!! Can you believe that? That was before computers were invented (or at least became mainstream) and the law that governs most of the details in the US Legal Immigration process hasn’t changed since then.
Current wait time for some classes of Filiipino family based immigration is as much as 22.5 years!! To me, that’s a joke! They could much rather say “Unavailable”, at least it doesn’t give people any hope at all. That’s a third of a human being’s average life expectancy. If you are the family of a philipino resident, good luck with your chances of reuniting with your family.
| Fam-ily | All Charge- ability Areas Except Those Listed | CHINA-mainland born | INDIA | MEXICO | PHILIPP-INES |
| 1st |
15APR02
|
15APR02
|
15APR02
|
8SEP92
|
1APR93
|
| 2A |
1JAN04
|
1JAN04
|
1JAN04
|
1MAY01
|
1JAN04
|
| 2B |
15DEC99
|
15DEC99
|
15DEC99
|
22APR92
|
8MAY97
|
| 3rd |
22JUN00
|
22JUN00
|
22JUN00
|
15SEP92
|
1MAY91
|
| 4th |
22OCT97
|
1MAY97
|
22MAY97
|
15JAN95
|
8MAR86
|
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